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Cecco Bravo
1607-1661
St. John the Baptist
Red chalk, with white chalk, on paper.
15 3/4 x 10 1/16 inches (400 x 255 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1975.6
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Watermark: hillocks (close to Briquet 11946).
Perhaps preparatory for the stained glass window in Santa Cecilia, Florence, or the painting "St. John in the Desert," both lost, but recorded in seventeenth-century sources.
Provenance:
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (no mark; see Lugt S. 2078a, 3005b); Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston (no mark; see Lugt S. 1860c); János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandagee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 277.
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