VENETIAN OR SOUTH GERMAN SCHOOL (C.1600)
The Goddess Diana seated in clouds
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, in an inscribed oval in pen and black chalk, the sheet squared for transfer in red chalk. Another study for the same figure, in a different pose, drawn in pen and brown ink, over a black chalk underdrawing, on the verso.
15.3 x 14.9 cm

PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale, Milan, Sotheby’s, 8 May 2001, lot 428
Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s South Kensington, 7 December 2005, lot 312
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, in 2008
Private collection, New York.

EXHIBITED:
London, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art and Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours, 2008-2009, no.58 (as Venetian School, late 16th Century).