Alessandro Maganza

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Alessandro Maganza

1556-approximately 1630

Three Studies for Martyrdom of Blessed Lorenzino da Valvrovina (or of St. Sebastian)

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; laid down on old album page.

10 7/8 x 7 9/16 inches (277 x 191 mm)

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

1975.37

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Provenance:

Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Muraro, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection János Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 42, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, p. 339, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 274-275.
Moir, Alfred, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 67, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
János Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 112, repr.

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