Fra Paolino

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Fra Paolino

1488-1547

Christ Child on the Lap of the Virgin. Verso: Fragmentary Sketch of Head and Shoulders of a Saint

Black chalk, traces of white chalk, on brown paper; verso: black chalk.

4 1/2 x 4 inches (115 x 102 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1986.88

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Watermark: none.
Possibly related to the figure of a woman in the lower right of the "Mater Misericordiae" of ca. 1515, Lucca, Pinacoteca.
Formerly attributed to Fra Bartolommeo, Florence 1472-1517 Florence.

Inscription:

Illegible inscription on verso in pen and brown ink.

Provenance:

Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S.47a); purchased in Turin in 1951 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Bartolomeo, fra, 1472-1517, Formerly attributed to.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 35.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 21, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 370.

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