LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink on paper toned with red chalk

Measurements:

8.31 in. (21.10 cm.) (height) by 10.87 in. (27.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo and Capodimonte Museum, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museumn of Art,. Luca Giordano 1634-1705, 2001-2, no. 17 (entry by R. Muzii), reproduced

Literature:

G. Scavizzi, 'New Drawings by Luca Giordano',. Master Drawings, vol. XXXVII, (1999), no. 2, p. 133, no. 19 (as location unknown), reproduced fig. 19;. O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi,. Luca Giordano. Nuove ricerche e inediti , Naples 2003, no. D40, reproduced

Provenance:

Fratelli Terres, Naples (price in . 'grana' on the. verso: . g. a 30 );. Sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1998, lot 132;. with Colnaghi, New York and London,. An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 1998, no. 28, reproduced,. where acquired by the present owner