Bernardo Strozzi (1581-1641/4)

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Bernardo Strozzi (1581-1641/4)

The Head of a Boy, looking down

with inscription '232'; black, red and white chalk, brown wash on light brown paper, the lower right corner made-up
168 x 165mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 15 April 1980, lot 82, illustrated (£750).

Literature

M. Newcome, Oil sketches and drawings by Bernardo Strozzi, Antichità viva, 1993, XXXII, p. 18, fig. 9.

Lot Essay

The head is similar to that of an angel in the Adoration of the Shepherds and to another in Saint Augustine washing Christ's Feet in the Accademia Ligustica, Genoa, L. Mortari, Bernardo Strozzi, Rome, 1995, nos. 506 and 222, illustrated.

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