Lot Essay
Drawings of similar technique and composition are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh and at Leipzig and Berlin. The elegant company depicted is very similar to that in Anthony and Cleopatra in Edinburgh, K. Andrews, Catalogue of Italian Drawings, Cambridge, 1968, D. 4842, fig. 13. An album of sheets of similar technique, formerly in the Odescalchi collection, was at Christie's, London, 20 March 1973, lot 65, illustrated.