Lot Essay
Ann Percy has identified a group of drawings by the same hand as by the 'Satyr Family Hand', some of which were published by Gaetano Zampini in Venice 1786 as after drawings by Castiglione in the Zanetti collection. Although the present drawings is not one of those published by Zampini it would seem likely that it is by a Venetian artist working in Castiglione's technique