Lot 28
  • 28

Italo-Flemish School

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Italo-Flemish School
  • the adoration of the shepherds
  • Pen and brown ink and wash; arched top;
    bears old attribution in ink, lower right: Frédéric Zuccharo.
    bears numbering in pen on the old mount: No721 and 12 and on the backing: No 86  

Condition

Laid down on an old mount which appears to be 18th Century . In the middle you can see traces of the folding of the sheet when manufactured . Sign of an old fold to the right margin, corner missing at the bottom right. There are a few creases and tiny losses along the left edge. Rubbing especially at the top of the sheet but also in a number of other places . Some surface dirt.
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Catalogue Note

This appears to be the work of a Northern artist active in Italy and is stylistically very close to Jan Van Der Straet, called Giovanni Stradanus.