FRANCE
Luca Penni (1500/4-1556)

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Luca Penni (1500/4-1556)

Diana and Callisto (?)

with inscription 'Luca Penni il Fatore'; on the mount black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (slightly oxidized), on light brown preparation, made up areas
397 x 291 mm.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445)
Alexander Barker; Christie's, 20 June 1879, lot 399
(#1.10s to Batten)

Lot Essay

Comparable with a sheet in the Ratjen collection Stiftung Ratjen Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1977, no. 36, illustrated. Mariette, in his Abecedario, recorded a group of drawings in the Crozat sale, which he thought reflected the influence of Primaticcio, most of which represented stories of Diana

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