LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink and wash heightened with white over black chalk, on blue-green paper

Measurements:

10.39 in. (26.40 cm.) (height) by 16.42 in. (41.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Pandora Old Masters, An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 1999, no. 4 (as Giovanni Battista Zelotti)

Literature:

The Age of Titian, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, The National Gallery of Scotland, 2004, p. 270 under no. 122 (catalogue entry by Aidan Weston-Lewis)

Provenance:

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 December 1964, lot 19 (as Venetian School, late 16th Century; with H. Shickman Gallery, New York; Christian Humann, New York, sale of his Estate, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 June 1982, lot 7 (as Circle of Palma il Giovane); with Pandora Old Masters, New York; acquired in 1999