Circle of Bernardo Buontalenti

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Circle of Bernardo Buontalenti
1536-1608
Four Soldiers Brandishing Swords and Other Sketches. Verso: Designs for Lintels and Grotesque Decoration
Pen and brown ink and wash, over red and black chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, with black chalk.
7 9/16 x 10 3/16 inches (192 x 258 mm)
Purchase.
1978.3
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Watermark: none.

Provenance: 
Savoia-Aosta (according to Janos Scholz records) Turin (see Lugt S. 47a); purchased in Turin in 1951 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

New York 1961(a), no. 9; Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 15; New York 1962(a), 7 and 37, no. 7; Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1963, pl. 77; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 22; New Haven 1964, no. 29; Hartford 1966, no. 5; Hackenbroch 1968, 140, no. 11; Madison 1973, no. 35; Robbins 1973, pp. 319, 322; Scholz 1976, no. 77; Blumenthal 1986, 91, no. 190; Olszewski 2008, 70-72, no. 59a; Coleman and Bohn 2008, 45-46, no. 12.1.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 180.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 22, repr. 27 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz : a loan exhibition, April 23-June 7, 1964, Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery, 1964, no. 29.
An Exhibition of Thirty Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Hartford, Conn. : Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, 1966, p. 5.
Yvonne Hackenbroch, "Some Florentine Jewels: Bountalenti and the Dragon Theme," Connoisseur, CLXIX, 1968, 140, repr. 11.
Scholz, János. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 77, repr.

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