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Italian School, late 16th Century
Italian School, late 16th Century

Sixteen sketches illustrating popular proverbs

细节
Italian School, late 16th Century
Sixteen sketches illustrating popular proverbs
inscribed above each sketch with the corresponding proverb
pen and brown ink
12 1/8 x 15 in. (30.8 x 38.2 cm.); and a drawing from the Bolognese School, 17th Century, showing a man beating a saddle, a bolting horse beyond (2)
来源
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 16 December 1980, lot 172, as 'Circle of the Zuccari'.

拍品专文

The sheet showing proverbs seems to be related to a print in the collection of the Royal Library at Windsor, titled 'Dutch drolls', which was once in the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo.