LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk
Measurements:
7.13 in. (18.10 cm.) (height) by 4.92 in. (12.50 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
inscribed, top edge: VENVS and signed, lower centre: Ioan Stradanus
Literature:
A. Baroni Vannucci, . Jan van der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano, . flandrus pictor et inventor, Milan 1997, pp. 281-2, no. 457, and under no. 454, reproduced p. 282
Provenance:
D'Aigremont Collection,. sale Paris, 3-7 April 1866, lot 155 ("Apollon, Mars, Mercure, Saturne, Jupiter et Vénus: six très beaux dessins à la plume, lavis de sepia et rehaussés de blanc");. sale, Paris, Drouot, 11 March 1985, lot 174;. Private Collection, Paris