Lot Essay
Other landscape drawings with contemporary attributions to Spada are in the Uffizi and the Art Institute of Chicago, Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Details
Valerio Spada (1613-1688)
Buildings on a River Bank, Bushes on a Bluff in the foreground; A Herdsman by a gnarled Trunk near a House sheltered by Trees; and Trees near a Farmstead with a Haystack
with inscriptions 'Valerio Spada' (1-3) and 'di Valerio Spada' on the
mount; black chalk, pen and brown ink
123 x 199mm. and smaller three on one mount
Buildings on a River Bank, Bushes on a Bluff in the foreground; A Herdsman by a gnarled Trunk near a House sheltered by Trees; and Trees near a Farmstead with a Haystack
with inscriptions 'Valerio Spada' (1-3) and 'di Valerio Spada' on the
mount; black chalk, pen and brown ink
123 x 199mm. and smaller three on one mount
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 12 Dec. 1985, lot 213, illustrated (#972)