拍品专文
Boscoli's libri dei conti mentions two compositions of the Baptism of Christ, one recorded on 28 November 1597 and another on 6 September 1599 for 'dodici carte di disegni figuratovi la Passione del Sg<->g.r J. Cristo et più un altro disegni di un San Giovanni che vuol battezare Cristo', Thiem, op. cit., p. 299.
The drawing comes from an album which bore the Spanish royal coat-of-arms used from 1700 until 1714, when the arms of the Duchy of Milan, ceded to Austria, were removed. The album, having purportedly been in the Orléans collection, passed into English hands at the beginning of the last century.
The drawing comes from an album which bore the Spanish royal coat-of-arms used from 1700 until 1714, when the arms of the Duchy of Milan, ceded to Austria, were removed. The album, having purportedly been in the Orléans collection, passed into English hands at the beginning of the last century.