Lot Essay
A drawing, as Mary Newcome Schleier kindly points out, with a similar composition by Paggi is in the Palermo album. She kindly confirms the attribution of the present drawing
The Decollation of Saint John the Baptist
Details
Giovanni Batista Paggi* (1554-1627)
The Decollation of Saint John the Baptist
black chalk, pen and brown ink, on blue paper, ink gall damage
10 x 7 7/8in. (254 x 199mm.); and a drawing by Bazzicaluva of a wooded river landscape (2)
The Decollation of Saint John the Baptist
black chalk, pen and brown ink, on blue paper, ink gall damage
10 x 7 7/8in. (254 x 199mm.); and a drawing by Bazzicaluva of a wooded river landscape (2)