LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red chalk

Measurements:

5.43 in. (13.80 cm.) (height) by 3.11 in. (7.90 cm.) (width)

Literature:

P. L. de Castris, Polidoro & La Lignamine's Messina Lamentation, London, 2004, pp. 46-7, ill.

Provenance:

J.-D. Lempereur (L. 1740); Paris, 24 May 1773 and following days, possibly part of lot 134 ('Polidor de Caravage. Trois dessins en deux feuilles; de differentes pensées, exécutées à la sanguine.').Lawrence Meyns, Jr.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2004, lot 24.