LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink and two shades of wash over black chalk

Measurements:

11.02 in. (28.00 cm.) (height) by 15.55 in. (39.50 cm.) (width)

Condition:

with decorative framing lines at the top

Literature:

A. Cecchi, 'Les ''disegni piccoli'': Nouvellles considérations sur Cecchino Salviati', Disegno: Actes du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes 1990, p. 28, reproduced fig. 9; C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, The Italian Drawings of the 15 th and 16 th Centuries in the Teyler Museum, Ghent and Doornspijk, 2000, p. 158, under no. 87

Provenance:

Possibly Francis G. Hickman, Memphis, his sale and others, Christie's 26 March 1963, part of lot 217 (Francesco Salviati, River Gods (two)); Bernard Breslauer, London; Sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1975, lot 192; with Galleria W. Apolloni, Rome, Dai Manieristi ai Neoclassici: Disegni Italiani, 1978, no. 3 (as Giorgio Vasari); with Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome, Il mercante altrove: Disegni da una collezione, 1996, no. 2; with Colnaghi, London and New York. An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 1996, no. 11, reproduced