LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red chalk

Measurements:

16.26 in. (41.30 cm.) (height) by 10.63 in. (27.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscription 'Lanfranco' and with numbers '3' and 'N9' [?] (partly erased) (verso)

Literature:

A. Poggi, 'I disegni di Carlo Donelli, il Vimercati. Un'esperienza accademica nella Milano tra Sei e Settecento', in Nuovi studi. Rivista di arte antica e moderna, 2007, no. 12, p. 183, no. 82.

Provenance:

Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863) (L. 1223). Pacini (possibly Giuseppe Pacini) (L. 2011). Dr Rudolf J. Heinemann (1902–1975) and Lore Heinemann (died 1996); Christie's, London, 1 July 1997, lot 68. with Jean-Luc Baroni, London (cat. 2008, no. 20), where acquired by the present owner.