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Francesco Vanni
1563-1610
Head of a Child. Verso: Head of Child Looking up to the Right
Colored chalks, on blue paper faded to a brown-green; verso: red, black and white chalk.
10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (276 x 210 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1986.109
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The sketch on the verso is probably a study for the Christ child in "Madonna with Child Crowning St. Cecilia," of ca. 1604, in S. Agnese al Vignano, Siena (Adolfo Venturi, "Storia dell'arte italiana", IX, 7, fig. 595).
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "Vanni".
Watermark: Bird in a circle (possibly Heawood 177).
Provenance:
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (1845-1926; no mark; see Lugt 2078a); Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston (1904-1944; Lugt 1860c); purchased in New York in 1945 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 385.
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