LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink and wash

Measurements:

11.81 in. (30.00 cm.) (height) by 9.57 in. (24.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears Gabburi's inscription in pen and brown ink on an added strip of paper on the back of the mount: Originale/Di mano di Filippo Lauri Napoletano Il quadro a olio di questo Disegno/dipinto dal med. mo Autore si conserva in questo anno 1733 nella Villa del/Poggio a Caiano nel celebre Gabinetto di quadri piccoli dei più celebri/Professori la di cui Collezione fù fatta già della G[loriosa] M[emoria] del Ser:mo/Ferdinando Medici Gran Principe di Toscana; also bears old numbering in pen and brown ink on the front of the mount, lower right corner: 3

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy,. The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 411 (as Balthazar Lauri);. Naples, Museo di Capodimonte and Museo Pignatelli,. Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, 1984, II, no. 3.15, reproduced.

Literature:

M. Roethlisberger, 'Around Filippo Napoletano',. Master Drawings, vol. XIII, no. 1, 1975, pp. 23-4, pl. 5 (the related painting reproduced fig. 1);. M. Chiarini,. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, Florence 2007, p. 460, reproduced fig. 384

Provenance:

Francesco Maria Niccoló Gabburi, his inscription in pen and brown ink, attached to the backing;. probably purchased by William Kent in 1758;. With P. & D. Colnaghi, London,. purchased by Paul Oppé, in 1934 (£14).