Genoese School, 17th century

Philip V, King of Spain (1683-1746), laid down on his album page with numbering at the top 28;

sale, London, Christie's, 22 November 1966, lot 115 (as Girolamo Romanino);

Herbert List (1903-1975), Hambourg (L.4063);

Wolfgang Ratjen (1943-1997), Münich;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2006, lot 123;

Private collection

According to a pencil note on the bottom of the album page from the collection of King Philip V of Spain on which the drawing is mounted (see Provenance), the famous collector Janos Scholz (1903-1993) proposed an attribution to Giovanni Battista Paggi (1554-1627). This is one of a group of drawings sold at Christie's in 1966 which originated from an album numbered V; it was bound in red leather, tooled with gold, and bore the Spanish royal coat-of-arms, in the form used from 1700 until 1714.