LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red chalk

Measurements:

13.78 in. (35.00 cm.) (height) by 7.87 in. (20.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears numbering in pen and brown ink: h100

Literature:

J. Wood, 'Padre Resta as a Collector of Carracci Drawings,' . Master Drawings, vol. XXXIV, no. 1 (1996). , p. 54, no. 78, reproduced fig. 36, note 237

Provenance:

Padre Sebastiano Resta;. Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (d. 1704),. sold by his heir, Cavaliere Orazio Marchetti da Pistoia;. John, Lord Somers, in England by 1711 (inscribed with Resta-Somers numbering. h100, in the Lansdowne manuscript as Annibale),. probably his sale, London, 6th May 1717;. Jonathan Richardson, Senior (1665-1745), London (L.2184), on his mount with attribution . Annibale, and shelf marks on the reverse of the backing: Y.10/J.;. sale, London, Christie's, 29 November 1977, lot 107