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Italian School
15th century
Grotesque Designs for a Pilaster Ornament. Verso: Underview of a Cornice and Studies of Pilasters
ca. 1500
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on two pieces of paper joined vertically at center; verso: pen and brown ink, over black chalk.
11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches (281 x 207 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1981.85
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Similar to decoration in the Oretari chapel in the Eremitani, Padua.
Formerly attributed to Andrea Mantegna.
Inscription:
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "14".
Watermark: Fragment, head of an ox [?].
Provenance:
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a); purchased in Turin in 1951 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Aspertini, Amico, 1474-1552, Circle of, Possible attribution.
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506, Formerly attributed to.
Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 274-275.
Ornaments and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints and Books, Brown University, Providence, 1980, no. 56, repr. pl. II (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
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