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Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Adoration of the Golden Calf, after Tintoretto. Verso: Fall of the Rebel Angels, after Tintoretto
Black chalk, with gray wash, on paper; verso: black chalk.
12 1/8 x 16 5/8 inches (308 x 423 mm; maximum dimensions)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.140
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Recto after Jacopo Tintoretto's "The Golden Calf" in Santa Maria dell'Orto, Venice, painted ca. 1560; verso after "Last Judgement", in the same church and dated to 1560.
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Inscribed on verso, on made up corner at lower left, in black chalk, "gu / M / 13"; at lower right, in black chalk, "6".
Watermark: Circle, bisected, surmounted by pole with three triangular segments attached. Same as 1993.133, 1993.139 and 1993.141.
Provenance:
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); purchased in Zurich in 1949 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; Lugt see 2933b).
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Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, donor.
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