Attributed to Bartholomeus Spranger

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 6 December 1989, lot 405 (circle of Federico Barocci);

Private collection, Schleswig-Holstein, from 1989;

Whence sold, Munich, Karl & Faber, 15 November 2024, lot 3 (as circle of Federico Barocci);

Where acquired.

This beautiful copper bears similarities to the early paintings of Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), executed while the artist was in Italy, particularly in the pale palette and the figure striding in on the left.