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Gaetano Piccini
active 1702-1740
Grotesque Design for Metalwork
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on laid paper; double framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Roundel: 5 inches (127 mm) diameter; sheet: 13 x 8 5/8 inches (330 x 219 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1988.91
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower center, within framing lines, in pen and brown ink, "Gaetano Piccini F."
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis inside a circle, surmounted by letter "V".
Provenance:
Walter Schatzki, New York; from whom acquired in 1958 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
An Exhibition of Thirty Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Hartford, Conn. : Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, 1966, under nos. 22-24.
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