Giovanni Battista Trotti, il Malosso* (1555-1619)

A draped Figure holding a Book and a Scroll

Details

Giovanni Battista Trotti, il Malosso* (1555-1619)
A draped Figure holding a Book and a Scroll
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, squared in black chalk, watermark F trefoil
10 x 6 in. (270 x 171 mm.)

Provenance

With Yvonne Tan Bunzl.

Lot Essay

Close in handling to a drawing of standing Amazon annotated 'Malosso' by the 'Sagredo-Borgese' hand offered at Christie's London, 11 January 1994, lot 188. Both drawings are of the same scale, are squared and show figures di sotto in su, but only the present drawing has wash. The compostion probably related to the same cycle of decoration.