Attributed to Marco Angelo del Moro (?Verona circa 1537-circa 1590)
Three musical angels, one playing a violin and two playing viols
bears inscription 'Marco del Moro' (lower left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper
13.3 x 16.7cm (5 1/4 x 6 9/16in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Sir Robert Mond (L.2813a, his stamp attached to the backing board)
Collection of Mrs F.H.Brackley
Her sale, Christie's, 5 December 1961, lot 137 (with 3 others in the lot) where purchased by
With Hans Calman, from whom acquired by
Terence Mullaly, 1961

Literature
T. Borenius & R. Wittkower, Catalogue of the Mond Collection, 1937, no. 170

Terence Mullaly (1927-2020) was an art historian, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who specialised in Italian art with a particular interest in the Veronese and Venetian schools, but whose collecting taste was wide-ranging. He was art critic for the Daily Telegraph 1958-1986 as well as contributing to Apollo and Burlington Magazine.