Italian School, 16th Century
PROPERTY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR ERIC STANLEY (LOTS 1, 5, 6, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 60, 63, 68, 69, 72, 75, 87, 89, 98, 99, 102, 111, 114, 140 and 200)
Italian School, 16th Century

Three witches, one seated on a pedestal in front of a cauldron

Details
Italian School, 16th Century
Three witches, one seated on a pedestal in front of a cauldron
with crossed out inscription 'Balazzi (Marco)/ Born at Florence 1604/ Died - 1670./ 893' (verso)
red chalk, pen and brown ink
9 ¼ x 7 in. (23.5 x 17.6 cm)
Provenance
Paul Sandby (1725-1809), London (L. 2112).
Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London (according to the 1976 catalogue).
John Malcolm of Poltalloch, to his son-in-law
The Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, and by descent to
Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, and to
The Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1976, lot 14.
Literature
J.C. Robinson, Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, esq, London, 1869, no. 112 (as attributed to Baccio Bandinelli).
A. Erskine, Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, 1902, no. 15 (as Baccio Bandinelli).
Exhibited
London, Colnaghi and Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971, no. 66.

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