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Italian School
19th century
Execution Scene
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper.
10 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (273 x 387 mm)
Bequest of Mrs. Ernest Ash.
1981.48
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed in black chalk, at upper left, "à la [indecipherable] / punition / de mort Papale / à Rome.-- / par / Antonio Reffo"; also in black chalk, at lower left, "Grottune - Roma -"; on the verso, in graphite, at lower center, "Bücke".
Provenance:
Dr. Curt Glaser, former Director of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; his widow, Maria Milch Glaser, later Mrs. Ernest Ash, New York.
Associated names:
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 266.
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