Lorenzo di Credi

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Lorenzo di Credi
approximately 1460-1537
Head of a Young Man, Turned to the Left, Looking Downward. Verso: Hinged.
ca. 1490
Metalpoint, with white opaque watercolor, on pink prepared paper.
5 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (129 x 114 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1980.57
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed on verso, in graphite, "Lorenzo di Credi/ Coll. Liechtenstein".

Provenance: 
Sale, Berlin, Amsler and Ruthardt, 25-27 May 1908, lot 131, repr., as Lorenzo di Credi; Lichtenstein collection, Vaduz (according to János Scholz); János Scholz (1903-1993), New York, by 1953.
Associated names: 

Lichtenstein, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 27.
Selected references: Montreal 1953, no. 30; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 15; Newark 1960, no. 8; Berenson 1961, 2: no. 701A; Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 28; Cologne 1963-64, no. 44; New Haven 1964, no. 6; Los Angeles and Seattle 1967, no. 13; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 27; New York 1971, no. 28; Scholz 1976, no. 10; Notre Dame 1980, no. 137; Fellows Report 19 1981, 185; Lawrence 1986, no. 14.
Italian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. London : Art Council Gallery, 1968, no. 27.
One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the János Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, p. 28.
Scholz, János. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 10, repr.
Scholz, János, and Dean A. Porter. János Scholz, Musician and Collector. Notre Dame : Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1980, no. 137.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 185.

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