on blue paper, the top corners cut diagonally, pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, executed c. 1538
77 x 72 mm.
Provenance
Sir Peter Lely (L 2092); William Gibson (Lugt supplement 2885); Jonathan Richardson Sen (L 2184); Thomas Worsley; Sir Marcus Worsley, Bt. Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, until 1977; Private Collection, Jersey
Literature
T. Mullaly, Burlington Magazine, CXI, 1969, p. 631, (as Pordenone); Charles E. Cohen, “Drawings by Pomponio Amalteo”, Master Drawings, XI, 1973, pp. 239-267; Charles E. Cohen, “I disigni di Pomponio Amalteo”, Friuli, pp. 80-81, figs 61 and 62; Keith Andrews, Review of Cohen's book, Burlington Magazine, December 1980, pp. 103-104; Jacob Bean, “Fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, New York, 1982, pp. 22-23
Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Merchant's Hall, “Italian Sixteenth Drawings from British Private Collections”, 1969