Lot Essay
Perhaps related to the lost picture of the same subject formerly in the Palazzo Aldrovandi, Bologna, C. Thiem, Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Bologna, 1990, p. 131. Comparable bozzetti, the majority drawn on the back of printed texts, are at Berlin, Bologna, Stockholm, Windsor and elsewhere, C. Thiem, op. cit., nos. Ch.1-24, illustrated