TAVARONE, LAZZAROGenua 1556 - 1640
Title: Homage from an Admiral to a Prince.
Technique: Pen and ink drawing, washed and heightened in white on paper.
Mounting: Mounted.
Measurement: 20,5 x 25,5cm.
Notation: Collection stamp "R" lower right and inscribed lower left: "Di Ant.o Tempesta".
Frame: Framed.
Verso:
Old attribution to Antonio Tempesta, as well as purchase note from 1816.
Provenance:
Collection Erich Schleier, Berlin;
Auction Bassenge, Berlin, 26 April 1977, lot. 259;
London, Jonathan Richardson Junior (1694-1771), portrait painter (Lugt 2170).
We are grateful to Simonetta Prosperi Valenti, Rome, for confirming the attribution of the present painting on the basis of a high-resolution digital photograph and her help in cataloguing this lot.