Innocenzo da Imola

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Innocenzo da Imola
approximately 1485-approximately 1548
Standing Draped Male Figure, Turning to the Right
Black and white chalk, on paper.
8 7/16 x 3 7/16 inches (215 x 87 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.126
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Study for figure of St. Joseph in the altarpiece "Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine", in S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna, signed and dated 1536.

Inscription: 

Inscribed on mount, at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Rafaelle d'Urbino / in Firenza / Veduto Fra: Bartolomeo"; on verso of mount, at lower right, Kühlen mark, in pen and brown ink, "41".

Provenance: 
Prince Johann Georg zu Sachsen, Dresden (no mark; Lugt 1466); unidentified collector's mark K.S. in purple (Kühlen?), his number Nr. 405; Kühlen (purple stamp, his number 41); Galerie Fischer, Lucerne; from whom purchased in 1963 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Johann Georg, Prince of Saxony, 1869-1938, former owner.
Kühlen, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Drawing in Bologna. 1500-1600, exh. cat. by Elizabeth Llewellyn and Cristiana Romalli, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1992, no. 35, repr.
Philip Pouncey, "Drawings by Innocenzo da Imola," Master Drawings, vol 7, no. 3, 1969, 290, no. 7, repr. plate 21.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 46, repr.

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