Lot 50
50
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Provenance
1st Earl of Leicester, his mount with the attribution 'Ciro Ferri-' in Thomas Pelletier's (?) hand
Literature
K. Andrews, National Gallery of Scotland Catalogue of Italian Drawings, Cambridge, 1968, I, p. 50, under no. D. 1770
A.E. Popham and C.E. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings at Holkham Hall, Chicago, 1986, no. 119
B.W. Davis, The Drawings of Ciro Ferri, New York and London, 1986, p. 219, pl. 64
Exhibited
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd, Old Master Drawings from Holkham, 1977, no. 78

Lot Essay

Philip Pouncey suggested that the strongly Cortonesque nature of this drawing indicates that it dates from Ferri's time in Cortona's studio in the early 1650s. Copies of this composition are recorded: one now at Edinburgh (K. Andrews, op. cit., no. D. 1770) engraved by S. Watts as after Ferri when it was in the collection of Charles Rogers, and others in the Weld Collection and at Düsseldorf (no. 1579)

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