Italian School, circa 1600
Design for a vase, after Polidoro da Caravaggio
pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper
32.3 x 17.1cm (12 11/16 x 6 3/4in).
unframed
together with two additional unframed drawings of vases by different hands (3)
Footnotes:
Provenance
H. Schickman, 1969
The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection
Private Collection, The Netherlands

Literature
P. Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, vol. 1, p.342, cat. no. 526

The present work is derived from an engraving by Alberto Cherubino, published in Rome in 1582. It follows the print in outline only with significant differences in the detail. A similar drawing, but in reverse, is in the Royal Academy, London.
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