inscribed in brown ink, lower right, in a seventeenth-century Italian hand: ‘G[ui]do reni.’, red and black chalk, with occasional touches of pen and brown ink; there is a pinhole, top centre
143 x 109 mm.
Provenance
unidentified collector (his mark, SW. 435, inscribed on the reverse); C. R. Rudolf (sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1977, lot 74, as attributed to Giovanni Battista Ricci da Novara, where purchased by Richard Day for the previous owner); private collection.
