Lot Essay
The name of the artist was given him by Philip Pouncey, based on the drawings once in the albums of the 1st Earl of Egmont (1683-1748) now at Yale. The artist has not yet been identified, he is probably Netherlandish but with an interest in Italian art. In the present drawing the pose of the wounded traveller is perhaps inspired by Michelangelo's Leda, which the artist may have known from Cornelis Bos' engraving.
Nicole Dacos has on stylistic grounds tentatively identified the artist as Dirck Hendricksz Centen, called Teodoro d'Errico (died 1618) a Netherlandish painter active in Naples at the end of the 16th Century. The attribution is based on the similarity between the physical types in the drawings attributed to the Master of Egmont Albums and signed works by Centen; Dacos compares the head of the Good Samaritan in this drawing with a figure in the Circumcision of circa 1582 in San Francisco, Folloni
Nicole Dacos has on stylistic grounds tentatively identified the artist as Dirck Hendricksz Centen, called Teodoro d'Errico (died 1618) a Netherlandish painter active in Naples at the end of the 16th Century. The attribution is based on the similarity between the physical types in the drawings attributed to the Master of Egmont Albums and signed works by Centen; Dacos compares the head of the Good Samaritan in this drawing with a figure in the Circumcision of circa 1582 in San Francisco, Folloni