Andrea Schiavone

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Andrea Schiavone

approximately 1500-1563

Apollo and Marsyas

ca. 1550-1560

Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue paper.

10 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (275 x 274 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1979.59

Notes:

Watermark: none.
After a composition by Parmigianino (traditionally called Apollo and Marsyas), also in the collection of the Morgan Library (Acc. No. IV, 44).

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of album page, in pen and black ink, "N 19 / Miniscalchi"; in graphite, "17; S-143".

Provenance:

Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); purchased in Zurich in 1949 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Parmigianino, 1503-1540, after.
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 23, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 64, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 204.

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