Baldassare Franceschini
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Baldassare Franceschini
1611-1689
Allegory in Honor of Vittoria della Rovere
Red chalk and red chalk wash on paper.
13 15/16 x 8 9/16 inches (339 x 219 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1976.35
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Watermark: none.
Study for central section of ceiling decoration in the Sala del Volterrano, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
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Numbered on verso, in pen and black ink, "63".
Provenance:
Cassini, Venice; Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Cassini, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. II: The seventeenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, no. 97, repr.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 93, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 263.
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