Lot 249
  • 249

Attributed to Bernardino Barbatelli, called Il Poccetti

Estimate
4,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Bernardino Barbatelli, called Il Poccetti
  • The Founding of a Franciscan convent
  • Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, heightened with white; squared in red chalk, arched top

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 1973, lot 25 (as Florentine School, circa 1600), purchased by Ralph Holland

Condition

Laid down. Paper buckled at the top of the drawing. Two dark small spots right and left at the top towards the margins. Some creases on the pair in the lower section. Some oxidization of the white heightening.
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