Francesco Montelatici, called Cecco Bravo

R. Holford;

Dr. Max Goldstein;

Janos Scholz;

with P. and D. Colnaghi, London, Exhibition of Old Master and English Drawings, June 1970, no. 23;

sale, London, Christie's, 8 April 1986, lot 60;

with Kate Ganz, Ltd., London, Italian Drawings 1500-1800, 1987, no. 16, reproduced;

Dodie Rosekrans, San Francisco;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2012, lot 10,

where acquired by the present owner

F. Baldassari, Cecco Bravo, Todi 2024, vol. II, p. 66, no. 34, reproduced

Oakland, Mills College Art Gallery and Berkeley, University of California, University Art Gallery, Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700, 1961;

Edinburgh, The Merchants' Hall, Italian 17^th Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1972, p. 104, no. 84, reproduced

A number of academies and studies of angels by Cecco Bravo have survived, the majority executed in red chalk. In her catalogue raisonné (see Literature), Francesca Baldassari has proposed a dating between 1640 and 1650 for the present drawing, which she includes among the 'Accademie'.