Marcantonio Bassetti (1586-1630)

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Marcantonio Bassetti (1586-1630)

The Parable of the Straw

with inscription 'GB 5°' on the backing; pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on brown prepared paper
141 x 188mm.

Lot Essay

This is one of a series of drawings on the Parables, similar in size and technique, two of which, The Parable of the Sower and Dives and Lazarus, are at Windsor, A. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1957, nos. 5 and 6.

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