Battista Franco, Il Semolei (1498-1561)

Details

Battista Franco, Il Semolei (1498-1561)

A Couple with Children followed by an old Woman

with number 'K 53' on the verso of the mount; black chalk, pen and brown ink
9¼ x 6 1/8in. (235 x 160mm.)

Provenance

With H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1965.

Exhibited

Duke University, 1966, no. 1.

Lot Essay

Drawings similar in handling by Franco are in the British Museum, J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum, Artists working in Rome, c. 1550 to c. 1640, London, 1983, nos. 119, 138, pl. 104, 122.