Questionable attribution Giovanni Antonio Pordenone

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Questionable attribution Giovanni Antonio Pordenone
1484?-1539
Standing Man, Seen from the Back, Pulling a Rope
Black chalk, with white chalk, on gray-brown paper.
16 5/16 x 9 1/2 inches (414 x 240 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1982.58

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Inscribed at lower right in black chalk, "2".
Watermark: Indecipherable image in circle.

Provenance: 
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); purchased in Zurich in 1949 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Twentieth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1984, p. 290.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 15, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions)

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