LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red chalk, pen and brown ink

Measurements:

9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (height) by 6.93 in. (17.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with crossed out inscription 'Balazzi (Marco)/ Born at Florence 1604/ Died - 1670./ 893' (verso)

Exhibited:

London, Colnaghi and Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971, no. 66.

Literature:

J.C. Robinson, Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, esq, London, 1869, no. 112 (as attributed to Baccio Bandinelli). A. Erskine, Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, 1902, no. 15 (as Baccio Bandinelli).

Provenance:

Paul Sandby (1725-1809), London (L. 2112). Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London (according to the 1976 catalogue). John Malcolm of Poltalloch, to his son-in-law The Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, and by descent to Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, and to The Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1976, lot 14.