LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink over black chalk

Measurements:

14.17 in. (36.00 cm.) (height) by 8.98 in. (22.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears letter in brown ink, lower right corner: X

Literature:

A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, Italian Drawings...in the British Museum, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, London 1950, p.194, under no. 311 (as possibly by the same hand as that drawing, catalogued as Paduan School, third quarter of the fifteenth century and very close to Zoppo);; Eberhard Ruhmer, Marco Zoppo, Vicenza 1966, pp.73-74, no. 65, reproduced (as Zoppo, after 1460)

Provenance:

Earl Fitzwilliam, ; his sale, London, Christie's, 11 June 1948, lot 1; Dr. and Mrs. Victor Bloch, ; their sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 November 1964, lot 9 (as Paduan School, third quarter of the fifteenth century) to Hans Calmann; with William Hallsborough Gallery, London, 1965; Denys Sutton, London, ; thence by inheritance to the present owner