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Gherardo Cibo
1512-1600
View of the Badia of Monsignor Nocera. Verso: Fragmentary Sketch of Mountains
1567
Red chalk on paper; pricked for transfer; some additional slight sketches in pen and brown and red ink; verso: pen and red ink, red wash.
5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (145 x 222 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1993.203
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Inscribed at upper edge, in pen and brown ink, "[symbol for Venus i.e. Venerdi] 20. d[i] giug[ni] 1567 su la strada maestra: Badia d[i] mons[igno]r[e] Rmo[mo superscript] [Reverendissimo(?)] d[i] nocera"; on verso, in black chalk, "8".
Provenance:
Dr. Manus Schaefer, New York; by whom presented in 1962 to János Scholz (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b), New York (according to Scholz, "given to me by Dr. Manus Schaefer, N.Y. 1962, after I have played with the Vegh Quartet in his house the Schubert C major Quartet").
Associated names:
Schaefer, Manus, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Durham 1965, no. 2; Bolten 1969, 129, 144
Italian Landscape Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Durham, N.C. : The Gallery, Department of Art, Duke Univesity, 1965, no. 2.
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