inscribed in brown ink in the lower left, in an eighteenth century hand, with the attribution: ‘giacinto [sic] Bertoia’, numbered in brown-black ink in the lower right corner, in the hand associated with the internal numbering of the drawings within t
223 x 411 mm.
Provenance
E. Jabach (cf. Lugt Suppl 2991b), with his large, cursive f in red chalk on the reverse of the old backing; P. Crozat, his number 128 inscribed in the lower right corner; An unidentified eighteenth century collector (cf. Lugt 474), who was at one time thought to be perhaps Crozat and has recently been identified, wrongly, as the comte de Caylus, with his ‘C’ stamp (which is however possibly a ‘JG’) in the lower right and with (?) his shelf mark ‘h./ v./ L./ 13’, which is often found in association with this mark; Anonymous English twentieth century collector; Christie's, London, 9th December 1982, lot 9 (as Bertoia); Private collection, England
Literature
Diane De Grazia, Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese Court, Bologna, 1991, p. 139, no. D/attr. 4, fig. 245
