Filippo Napoletano (Naples or Rome circa 1587-1629 Rome)
Filippo Napoletano (Naples or Rome circa 1587-1629 Rome)

Seated and walking soldiers and other men and women in a rocky landscape (recto); Studies of shells (verso only visible through the recto)

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Filippo Napoletano (Naples or Rome circa 1587-1629 Rome)
Seated and walking soldiers and other men and women in a rocky landscape (recto); Studies of shells (verso only visible through the recto)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
6 5/8 x 10 7/8 in. (16.6 x 27.6 cm.)
framed
Provenance
With Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London (according to a label to the reverse of the frame), from whom possibly acquired by Lord Weidenfeld in, or before 1983.

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Lot Essay

A drawing of two soldiers showing a similar treatment of the figures is in the Louvre, Paris (inv. 9654).

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