Attributed to Antonio Travi, Il Sestri (Sestri Ponente 1608-1665)
Attributed to Antonio Travi, Il Sestri (Sestri Ponente 1608-1665)

The Adoration of the Magi

Details
Attributed to Antonio Travi, Il Sestri (Sestri Ponente 1608-1665)
The Adoration of the Magi
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on faded blue paper
10½ x 13 in. (26.7 x 33 cm.)
Provenance
H. Vaughan (L. 1380a), with his number '222'.

Lot Essay

By the same hand as The Adoration of the Shepherds, a drawing which has been associated with Antonio Travi, Il Sestri (Sestri Ponente 1608-1665) and is now in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Inv. C 63/1185; C. Thiem, Italienische Zeichnungen 1500-1800, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1992 [reprint], no. 307). Another drawing of the Adoration of the Magi by the same hand was previously in the C.R. Rudolf collection (see Sotheby's, London, 19 May, 1977, lot 14, as 'North Italian School, 18th Century').

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