Attributed to Jacopo Ripanda

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Attributed to Jacopo Ripanda

active 1490-1530

Two Grotesque Heads of Men Wearing Fantastic Helmets

Brush and blue ink and wash,with white opaque watercolor, over metalpoint, on blue toned paper; the sheet was cut vertically in two (in order to separate the heads) and subsequently re-assembled.

6 1/16 x 8 1/16 inches (153 x 205 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1979.57

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso on left half of sheet in graphite, "Ripanda / Aspertini; 9; LdV"; printed in black ink, "0"; on right half of sheet in graphite, "10, LdV"; and inside the Piatti-Lochis mark, "Leonardo da Vinci"; printed in black ink, "29".

Provenance:

Countess Rosa Piatti-Lochis, Crocetta near Bergamo (Lugt S. 2026c); Ferruccio Asta, Venice (1900-1952; Lugt S. 116a); purchased in London in 1953 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Piatti-Lochis, Rosa, Countess, former owner.
Asta, Ferruccio, 1900-1952, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 32 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 76.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 42, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 212.

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