Giorgio Vasari

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Giorgio Vasari

1511-1574

Design for the Decoration of a Loggia with Grotesques

1553

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, and stylus indentations, on paper.

4 1/16 x 1 1/8 inches (104 x 280 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1984.61:2

Notes:

Traced with stylus on the verso.
One of six studies for a vaulted ceiling decoration. Although the specific project has not yet been identified, it has been tentatively related to a commission for the decoration of a loggia that Vasari received on 14 April 1545 from Don Pietro Tolledo, Viceroy of Naples.

Inscription:

Inscribed in framed tablets, in pen and brown ink, "capricornus; virgo; aires"; and below the figures, "FLO / RA; CER / ES". Beneath these inscriptions, on the springing of the arch, "eolus".
Watermark: Circle with a scissor inside (shear). Fragment.

Provenance:

Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Armand François Louis de Mestral de St. Saphorin (1738-1805), Switzerland and Vienna; Galerie Reichlin, Lausanne; André Marmier, Geneva; from whom purchased in 1965 by Janos Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

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Associated names:

Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Marmier, André, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected reference: Vitzthum 1966, 64; Thiem 1968, 150; Notre Dame and Birmingham 1970, 83-84, no. D33; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 28; Ragghianti Collobi 1976, 62; Fellows Report 1989, 386; New Haven 1994, 27, no. 25; Prague 1996, 231; Corti 1996, 161; Fairbrain 1998, 2: 518; Boston and Florence 2003-04, 195, 421-24, no. 29f; Gregory 2012, 372; Härb 2015, 317-319, no. 161f.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 386.

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