Francesco Guardi

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Francesco Guardi
1712-1793
Head of a Boy
Black and red chalk on light brown paper.
7 1/16 x 4 15/16 inches (179 x 125 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1980.63
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "n"(?).

Provenance: 
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 197.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 70 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
János Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 176, repr.

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