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Giovanni Paolo Melchiori
1664-1745
Study for the Blessed Pope Celestine in Meditation
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (247 x 187 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.137
Notes:
Formerly attributed to Ercole Procaccini.
An engraving after Melchiori's design was made by Benedetto Fariat around 1729 (see Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino, "Drawings of the Roman Baroque Painter Giovanni Paolo Melchiori," Master Drawings, vol. 18, no. 4, 1980, 357, fig. 8).
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Procacini"; numbered on verso at upper left, "4"(?) (with a decoration at right); also numbered on verso at upper center, in pen and gray-brown ink, "53".
Watermark: Anchor in a circle surmounted by a six-pointed star, with letter "F" below.
Provenance:
Dr. Max A. Goldstein, St. Louis (no mark; see Lugt 2824); Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Procaccini, Ercole, 1605-1675 or 80, Formerly attributed to.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
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