Lot Essay
The recto is a study of Hagar and the verso of her left hand holding a vase in The Angel appearing to Hagar in the Wilderness, sold in these Rooms, 9 April 1990, Lot 66a
Two composition studies for the picture are at Windsor, A. Blunt and H.L. Cooke, The Roman Drawings at Windsor Castle, London, 1960, nos. 268-70, and others are at Chatsworth and at Düsseldorf, A. Sutherland Harris and E. Schaar, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Die Handzeichnungen von Andrea Sacchi und Carlo Maratta, Düseldorf, 1967, nos. 437-8
Two composition studies for the picture are at Windsor, A. Blunt and H.L. Cooke, The Roman Drawings at Windsor Castle, London, 1960, nos. 268-70, and others are at Chatsworth and at Düsseldorf, A. Sutherland Harris and E. Schaar, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Die Handzeichnungen von Andrea Sacchi und Carlo Maratta, Düseldorf, 1967, nos. 437-8