Andrea Schiavone

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Andrea Schiavone
ca. 1500-1563
Meleager and Atalanta Hunting the Caledonian Boar
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
9 15/16 x 15 5/8 inches (253 x 396 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1982.61
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Inscribed at lower right, in black chalk, "6"; on verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Fraco[co superscript] Parmigiano".
Watermark: Crescent shape, partly indecipherable (moon).

Provenance: 
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Alternate attribution.
Anonymous, Italian School, 17th cent., Alternate attribution.
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 180.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 276.

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