Paolo Farinati

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Paolo Farinati

1524-1606

Seated Woman Holding a Dagger (Lucretia) with a Satyr and Young Boy. Verso: Draped Male Nude, Standing, Term

Pen and brown ink and wash, and gray wash, with lead white opaque watercolor (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on blue paper; verso: black chalk, with white chalk.

10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches (259 x 399 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1985.84

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Verso: Sketch of a standing, draped male figure, in black chalk.

Inscription:

Inscribed near lower edge, in pen and brown ink, by the artist, "Done famose Luchrez[...] romana"; on verso, at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "P. Farinato / 57"; at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "514?".
Watermark: Balance or anchor in circle.

Provenance:

Unidentified collector (mark on verso: flower with eight petals in square twice framed, black); Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Sir J. C. Robinson (Lugt 1433); W. Turnor (anonymous collection); his sale, London, Christie's, 4 December 1931, lot 21, £2, -2, -0 to Howard; F. Howard, Los Angeles; from whom purchased in 1948 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

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Associated names:

Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Turnor, W., former owner.
Howard, F., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 52, repr.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 88, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 337-338.

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