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Kneeling Bearded Old Man (recto); Section of a Draped Limb and Sketches (verso), Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi) Italian, Red chalk, pen and brown ink with brush and brown and red wash, highlighted with a little white (recto); pen sketch of a seated, bearded man, and a red chalk drapery (?) study amongst charcoal or black chalk transfer preparation (verso) — Kneeling Bearded Old Man (recto); Section of a Draped Limb and Sketches (verso)
attributed to Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi)
1500–1571

The Adoration of the Magi, Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi) Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, with some traces of white gouache highlights (oxidized); the kneeling male figure at center reworked by the artist with pen and darker brown ink; a strip of paper added at the bottom and the design of the feet of the figure at lower left completed in brush and brown ink by an early hand, not that of the artist — The Adoration of the Magi
Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi)
1500–1571

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