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Gian Battista Zelotti

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Gian Battista Zelotti
1526-1578
Sacrifice. Verso: Half-length study of a woman
Pen and brown ink and wash,with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper; verso: black chalk.
9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (246 x 165 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.114
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For Villa Godi-Valmarana in Lonedo di Lugo, Vicenza, painted in 1561.

Inscription: 

Inscribed, probably while in Moscardo collection, on fragment of old Moscardo? album page, in pen and brown ink, "Del ziloti".

Provenance: 
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Michelangelo Muraro, Venetian Drawings from the Collection Janos Scholz, exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Centro di Cultura e Civiltà, Venice, 1957, no. 32, repr.

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Zelotti, Gian Battista
School: 
Italian
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints