Lot Essay
A study for the picture in the Pisani collection, Naples. The highly finished nature of this drawing is paralleled in a study in the Louvre, C. Monbeig-Goguel and W. Vitzthum, Le Dessin à Naples du XVIe siécle au XVIIIe siécle, Paris, 1967, no. 80, pl. XX. Other comparable sheets are in the Uffizi (W. Vitzthum, Cento Disegni Napoletani, Florence, 1967, no. 98, pl. 63) and at Chatsworth, W. Vitzthum, I Disegni Dei Maestri, il barocco a napoli e nell'italia meridionale, Milan, 1970, pls. XXXIV-V