Italian School, 17th Century

A Boy unloading a Donkey

细节
Italian School, 17th Century
A Boy unloading a Donkey
with inscription 'Domenichino da Barberini' and numbered '50'
black and white chalk on blue paper, fragmentary watermark device
203 x 254 mm.; and a portrait of a man by a French hand (2)

拍品专文

The first drawing is a copy of two figures in Domenichino's picture of The Sacrifice of Isaac datable 1623-25, at Holkham Hall.
Domenichino's painting was first mentioned in an inventory of the Barberini collection in 1633 when Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Pope Urban VIII's nephew, sent a number of pictures to the Cancelleria, and was last mentioned in a Barberini inventory in 1738 when it was bought by Matthew Brettingham. It has been at Holkham since 1773.
According to the inscription the present drawing must have been executed when the painting was in the Barberini collection.