Inscribed, lower right, 39

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, on white paper, within black ink framing lines

10 x 13 1/16 inches

254 x 332 mm

Provenance

Pierre Crozat (Lugt 3612, his numbering, 39), Paris

Anonymous sale:  London, Christie’s, 6 July 1976, lot 34, illustrated (as Stradanus)

Ralph Holland (1917-2012), Newcastle upon Tyne,

Thence by descent (sale: London, Sotheby’s, ‘Galleria Portatile’:  The Ralph Holland Collection, 5 July 2013, lot 244, illustrated

Exhibitions

Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian Drawings, 1525-1750, 1982, cat. no. 14, plate II B, illustrated (catalogue by R. Holland)

Literature

F. Härb in Disegno, giudizio e bella maniera, Studi sul disegno italiano in onore di Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Milan, 2005, p. 110, cat. no. 59, p. 111, illustrated

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