LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black chalk and stylus over the architectural setting, squared for transfer in black chalk and stylus, within grey pen and ink framing lines

Measurements:

4.96 in. (12.60 cm.) (height) by 4.69 in. (11.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears an old attribution, probably 17th-century, in pen and brown ink, verso: Michellangelo

Literature:

G. Vasari,. Le Vite de' più eccellenti Pittori scultori ed architettori…., 2nd. ed., Florence 1568, vol. III, p. 383;. D. Franklin, 'Documents for Giovanni Antonio Lappoli's Visitation in Sante Flora e Lucilla in Arezzo,. Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 41, 1/2 (1997), pp. 199-201 (as 'not survived'

Provenance:

August Christian Hauck, Rotterdam (1742-1801),. thence by descent to the present owner