LOT DETAILS

Materials:

brush in blue wash, with touches of pen and brown ink, the central section squared in black chalk

Measurements:

9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (height) by 6.50 in. (16.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears inscription in pen and brown ink: Bilisario a Monte Cassino; inverted t-shape, cut out and laid down on the mount

Exhibited:

Newcastle, 1974, no. 44, reproduced pl. XVI; London, 1975, no. 31; Newcastle, 1982, no. 36

Literature:

V. Farina, 'La collezione del Viceré: il marchese del Carpio, padre Sebastiano Resta e la prima raccolta ragionata di disegni napoletani', Le Dessin Napolitain, Actes du colloque international (6-8 March 2008), Rome 2010, pp. 190-192, reproduced fig. 8

Provenance:

Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzman, Marchese del Carpio e Helice;; sale, London, Christie's, 20 March 1973, lot 12;; with Lorna Lowe, London, from whom purchased, November 1973