Lot Essay
The Entombment of Christ in the Victoria and Albert Museum is comparable both in style and technique to that of the present sheet, P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings Volume One: 14th-16th Century, London, 1979, no. 315, illustrated. The Victoria and Albert drawing is dated by Francis Richardson to about 1550, F. Richardson, Andrea Schiavone, Oxford, 1980, no. 175