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Italian School
16th century
Striding Draped Man, Seen from the Back
mid-
Black chalk on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink.
8 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches (210 x 82 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1986.79
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Berenson assigns this sheet to Signorelli's late period, or to his student Tommaso Bernabei, called Papacello (ca. 1500-1559).
Formerly attributed to Luca Signorelli, Cortona, Tuscany 1441?-1523 Cortona, Tuscany. Acquired as attributed to Luca Signorelli.

Provenance: 
Maurice Marignane (b. 1879), Paris (Lugt 1872); De Beer, London, from whom purchased in 1962 János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Signorelli, Luca, 1441?-1523, Formerly attributed to.
Marignane, Maurice, 1879-1956, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of János Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 33.
Scholz, Janos. One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the János Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 79, repr.
Italian Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. Norton, Mass. : Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, 1971, no. 24, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 380.

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