Master of the Victoria and Albert Museum Diablerie (late 16th Century)

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Master of the Victoria and Albert Museum Diablerie (late 16th Century)

A Battle near a Wood

with inscription 'Polidor.'; pen and brown ink, on brown paper, made up areas
375 x 508mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 26 March 1974, lot 61, illustrated (280 gns. to Woodner)

Exhibited

Glasgow, 1953, no. 31

Lot Essay

The artist takes his name from the drawing of a witches' sabbath in the Victoria and Albert Museum, P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings, 14th-16th Century, London, 1979, I, no. 519, illustrated. Drawings by the same hand are in the British Museum (1955-7-22-2) and in the collection of Janos Scholz

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