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Lute, in Perspective, and its Shadow

Italian School
16th century

Lute, in Perspective, and its Shadow

ca. 1500
3 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches (98 x 79 mm)
Pen and dark brown ink, gray wash, on paper.
1993.223

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
One of two drawings of lutes in the collection of the Morgan Library; see 1993.222.
Description

One of two perspectival drawings of lutes in the Morgan’s collection.1

Footnotes:

  1. For the other, see Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. 1993.222.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Trefoil, fragment of larger watermark.
Associated names
Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Savoia-Genova, Tommaso di, 1854-1931, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department