Lot 527: Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, il Fiammenghino (Milan 1575-1640)

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, il Fiammenghino (Milan 1575-1640)
A seated prophet, carrying a staff and book
with inscription 'del la Rovere detto Fiammenghino' (recto) and 'fiamencino' (verso)
black chalk, heightened with white, on faded blue paper, upper left corner made up
14½ x 10¼ in. (37 x 26 cm.), unframed

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 47.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 43.

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This drawing is close in style and format to the sheets by Giovanni Mauro in the Resta collection, now in the Ambrosiana, Milan (G. Bora, I disegni del Codice Resta, Bologna, 1976, nos. 95-6, 156), and from the collection of Giuseppe Bossi at the Accademia, Venice (U. Ruggieri, Disegni Lombardi, Milan, 1982, no. 95).