bears an old attribution lower right, black chalk, heightened with white on buff paper
258 x 194 mm.
Provenance
C.R. Rudolf, his sale, Sotheby’s, 4 July 1977, lot 116; Private collection, Channel Islands
Literature
J-M Merz, Cortona-Studien (Ph.D. thesis), Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, 1985, five volumes, p. 161, no. 4.7.77 (116); To be included in Dr. Merz’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Cortona’s drawings
Exhibited
London, Arts Council, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr C.R. Rudolf, 1962, no. 54 , illustrated on the cover of the catalogue
Although it has been proposed that this drawing relates to Cortona’s work at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome (1632-1639), Dr. Merz has suggested that stylistically it is closer to his drawings of the 1650’s.
