LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red chalk, on a very slight white preparation

Measurements:

15.83 in. (40.20 cm.) (height) by 7.64 in. (19.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears recent black chalk attribution: A. Sacchi

Literature:

E. Testori and A. Marengo, 'Risarcimento a Sodoma,' Le Frontiere dell' arte. Una raccolta di testi di Marco Rosci con saggi in suo onore, Novara 2013, pp. 113-118, reproduced pp. 108, 114-115, 117

Provenance:

René de Menthory, 1930 (from an inscription on the old mount, now lost: René de Menthory 16 Janvier 1930 beau dessin italien d'un caractère particulierment puissant attribué anciennement à Andrea Sacchi);. sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 23 May 2011, lot 61 (as Gian Antonio Sogliani);. London, Private Collection