Lot Essay
The technique of this drawing, particularly the cross hatching of the white chalk, is comparable with that on a number of sheets in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, E. Schar, Die Handzeichunungen von Andrea Sacchi und Carlo Maratta, Düsseldorf, 1967, nos. 187, 221, 223 and 238, pls. 39, 48, 50, and 53.