LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink and wash over

Measurements:

8.11 in. (20.60 cm.) (height) by 10.51 in. (26.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

black chalk bears old attribution in capital letters in pen and brown ink: Stradano over the original inscription by the artist: Sardonicus bears old numbering in pen and ink top left: 2 35 and bottom right: 30

Exhibited:

Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, . L'Oeil et la Passion, Dessins italiens de la Renaissance dans le collections privées françaises, 2011, p. 112, no. 29, p. 113, reproduced (entry by Nicolas Schwed

Provenance:

Rudolf Düb (died 1939), Brünn (L.2197b);. sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 November 1970, lot 9, where purchased by the present owner