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Francesco Londonio

Young Shepherd Boy Leaning on a Staff

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Francesco Londonio

(Milan 1723 - 1783)

Young Shepherd Boy Leaning on a Staff


Black chalk heightened with white on buff­ colored paper

379 by 179 mm; 14⅞ by 7 in.

William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth (1881-1958), Patshull House, Wolverhampton,

sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 May 1964, part of lot 170 (as Dutch School, 18th century);

with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964;

James Byam Shaw (1903-1992), London;

private collection,

sale, New York, Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2002, lot 145;

with W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, Master Drawings, 2003, no. 13,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, not in catalogue;

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 62 (entry by Sue Welsh Reed)