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Paris Bordone

1500-1571

Head of a Bearded Man, Eyes Closed

ca. 1533

Black chalk, with white chalk, on blue laid paper faded to green-gray.

7 5/16 x 5 1/2 inches (185 x 133 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1981.90

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Strip added at right.
Formerly attributed to Lorenzo Lotto, 1480?-1556?

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "Tiziano".

Provenance:

Simoni, Geneva, from whom purchased in Geneva in 1957 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Lotto, Lorenzo, 1480?-1556?, Formerly attributed to.
Simoni, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Oakland and elsewhere 1959, no. 30; New York 1960; Staten Island 1961, no. 10; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 88; New Haven 1964, no. 38; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 55; New York 1971, no. 51; Norton 1971, no. 14; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 96; Scholz 1976, no. 30; Olszewski 1981, no. 115; Fellows Report 1984, 273; Rearick 1987 (b), 50-51, no. 5; Rearick 2001, 85.
Scholz, 1961, no. 10.
Scholz, 1963-64, no. 88.
Scholz 1973-74, no. 96, repr.
Scholz 1976, no. 30, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 273.

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