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Andrea Pozzo
1642-1709
Left half of a "Theatrum Sacrum"
1685
Pen and brown ink, with brown and gray wash, on paper.
16 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (412 x 168 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:509
Notes:
This drawing is strikingly similar to fig. 71 in Pozzo's "Perspectivo Pictorum et Architectorum," Rome, 1692, representing the Marriage at Cana erected in the Jesuits' church in Rome in 1685.
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Provenance:
Michael Mayr, Eisenstadt and Vienna (no mark; seeLugt S. 1804a); by descent to Marianne Fajt, Eisenstadt (see Lugt S. 1804a); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b); acquired in 1951 by Donald M. Oenslager, New York.
Associated names:
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Mayr, Michael, 1796-1870, former owner.
Fájt, Marianne, d. ca. 1955, former owner.
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