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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
1675-1741
Holy Bishop in Glory
Pen and brown ink and wash, over red chalk, with black chalk, on laid paper on decorative mount.
10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches (264 x 207 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1983.37
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Preparatory study for an octagonal ceiling painting.
Provenance:
Alexis Romanovitch Tomiloff, St. Petersburg (Lugt 181); Eugene Grigorievitch Schwarz, St. Petersburg (Lugt 859); Konstantinoff, Paris; from whom acquired in 1957 by János Scholz, New York (Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Tomiloff, Alexis Romanovitch, former owner.
Schwarz, Eugene Grigorievitch, former owner.
Konstantinoff, 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. 286-287.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 133, repr.
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