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Cesare Nebbia
approximately 1536-1614
St. Susanna Refusing to Sacrifice to Pagan Gods
1596-1597
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk; squared for transfer in red chalk.
8 15/16 x 6 3/16 inches (227 x 157 mm)
Purchased on the Edwin Herzog Fund.
1999.13
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Inscription: On the top of the verso, 61 N.31 has been written in pen and brown ink. In graphite, on the bottom lower right, II / 700 / No. 57 lue / Gio. Batt. Paggi / 1554-1627 Sienna / 7221 / Edl.lee / Poggi has been inscribed by Scholz.
Provenance:
Hartung & Hartung, Munich, 5 May 1995, lot 5090 (as Giovanni Battista Paggi); Flavia Ormond Fine Arts, London 1999.
Bibliography:
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 124.
Selected references: London 1996, no. 7; Eitel-Porter 1997, 193-97; Zuccari 2004, 40-41, 71; Eitel-Porter 2009, 137-38, 190.
Flavia Ormond Fine Arts Limited, Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1850, exh. cat., 1999, no. 7, repr.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter, Der Zeichner und Maler Cesare Nebbia 1536-1614, Munich, 2009, pp. 137-138, 190, fig. 167.
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