Marco Marchetti (Faenza 1528-1588)
Design for a wall decoration showing Jupiter on a chariot in a niche
pen, brown ink and brown wash on laid paper
26.9 x 20.3cm (10 9/16 x 8in).
unframed
Footnotes:
Provenance
Nathaniel Hone (L.2793)
With Leonard Koetser, from whom acquired in 1959 by Terence Mullaly

Exhibited
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Art Historians and Critics as Collectors, May 1965, no. 22

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.

The sheet is attached to the mount with tape on the top and bottom right corners. It is stamped with Hone's collector's mark lower right. There is extensive, light foxing on the sheet and several light grey stains: in the top right corner, below the eagle in the lower left, by the swag at the bottom and to the left of the mask. There is other surface soiling elsewhere. On the verso there is an inscription 'Jean d'Udine', the number 126 and the remains of two small labels.