Giacomo Cestaro
1718-approximately 1785
Madonna and Child Adored by Saints. Verso: Drawings of a ground plan and a putto
15 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches (399 x 245 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; squared in black chalk; pen and black ink over black chalk, separate sketches in black chalk.
1993.389
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Quadruped inside double circle, centered on chain line.
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
In the Shadow of Vesuvius : Neapolitan Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. New York : Finch College Museum of Art, 1969, no. 54, repr.
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Century Drawings
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