LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink over black chalk, irregular shape

Measurements:

4.76 in. (12.10 cm.) (height) by 6.06 in. (15.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears inscription in pen and brown ink, lower centre: ingilese and lower right: tedeschi, and upper left: agosti Tassi 10 and bears black chalk inscription on the mount, lower left: Aug Tassi, Claude's master and lower centre on the mount: ? 170

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy,. The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 452.

Literature:

P. Ward-Jackson,. Italian Drawings, 17th-18th Century, London, 1980, II, pp. 86-87, under no. 811

Provenance:

Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364);. William Esdaile;. Purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1947 (£10).