Lot Essay
An inscription on the mount in a later hand suggests that the subject is a scene from the life of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, later Pope Leo X
Details
Giovanni Balducci, called il Cosci (circa 1560- circa 1631)
A Cardinal on Horseback, a Man fallen from a Horse before him
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on grey paper
167 x 258mm.
A Cardinal on Horseback, a Man fallen from a Horse before him
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on grey paper
167 x 258mm.
Provenance
P. Crozat (?) (L. 474)