Carlo Urbino

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Carlo Urbino
fl 16th century
Sheet of Studies: Couple Embracing and Several Female Nudes
Pen and brown ink on paper.
8 1/4 x 7 1/16 inches (209 x 179 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1982.57
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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Pordenone 1483?-1539 Ferrara.

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Inscribed at upper left in pen and brown ink, "Pordonon"; on verso, at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "Zechini 5".

Provenance: 
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (1845-1926; no mark; see Lugt 2708a); Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston (1904-1944; no mark see Lugt 1860c); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Pordenone, Giovanni Antonio, 1484?-1539, Formerly attributed to.
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Muraro, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection Janos Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 16, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 290.

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