Lot 39
  • 39

School of the Veneto, Second Half of the 16th Century

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Description

  • a knight in armor with his page
  • inscribed in brown ink, centre left: jacobus de cabellis/filius Reip[ubblica]: Veneta/capitaneus Generalis 1520 (or 1570)
  • pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

Catalogue Note

This full length portrait of a general of the Venetian republic probably relates to a publication of Uomini illustri. The paper of the present drawing has a watermark with an anchor in a circle surmounted by a six-pointed star and was made in the Veneto, most probably around Venice, circa 1560-80.  The type of armor is characteristic of the North of Italy and the Veneto, and would seem to date from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.