Attributed to Hans Rottenhammer

Hinged at top margin. There are black ink stains along the top of the sheet, concentrated more upper left. There is a minor loss at the bottom right hand corner of the sheet. There are areas of brown staining and overall surface dirt. The medium however remains fresh and the image is strong.
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This somewhat free copy after del Sarto's famous fresco of 1525 in the Chiostro dei Morti, Santissima Annunziata, Florence,¹ was clearly executed by a northern artist working in Italy in the years around 1600.  Although Rottenhammer spent most of his career in Venice, sylistically the drawing can be compared with certain works by him, such as the Raising of Lazarus, now at Chatsworth.² 

1.  Antonio Natali, Andrea del Sarto, Milan 1999, pp. 156-7, reproduced

2.  Hans Rottenhammer, begehrt - vergessen - neu entdeckt, exhib. cat., Schloss Brake, Weserrenaissance-Museum, and Prague, Nationalgalerie, 2008-9, p. 57, fig. 93