An apostle holding a book

One of a series of ten drawings of apostles in pen and ink of approximately the same size, D. Angulo and A.E. Pérez Sánchez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, Valencia (1600-1700), London, 1985, III, nos. 2-9, pls. I-III. A further drawing of an apostle in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, is signed and dated 1642, A.E. Pérez Sánchez, Dessins espagnols, Maîtres des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, no. 81.