indistinctly inscribed by the artist with a colour note, bears inscription lower left: ‘Van Dyck’, point of brush, brown wash over black chalk
250 x 386 mm.
Provenance
Addison Francis Baker-Cresswell (1874-1921), Cresswell and Hadston, Northumberland; his gift to Dorothy Winkworth, mother of Mary Winkworth, later Mrs. G. W. Wrangham (ca. 1903-1933), London and Hatfield; by descent in a private collection, Northumberland
Literature
K.T. Parker, ‘Some Drawings by Rubens and his School in the Collection of Mrs G.W. Wrangham’, Old Master Drawings, June 1928, p. 4, pl. 6 (as ?Anthony van Dyck)
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival Society/Scottish Arts Council, ‘Italian 17th Century Drawings from British Private Collections’, August 19th – September 9th , 1972, p. 12, no. 31, illustrated p.96, as attributed to Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
