Lot 324: AGOSTINO MASUCCI

ROME 1690 - 1768 THE MADONNA AND CHILD APPEARING ABOVE AN ALTAR TO A KNEELING PRELATE Red chalk heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk for transfer; bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, lower left: Agost.oMasucci and lettering lower right: SX; bears inscription on the backing in pen and brown ink: Appartiene ad alessandro Mag= / giori, il quale lo compró / in Roma nel 1808 414 by 261 mm

Newcastle 1982, no. 84, reproduced pl. XVI B

Alessandro Maggiori (L.3005b; his inscription on the backing); with Lorna Lowe, London, from whom purchased, 1976

Ralph Holland's notes mention a less finished study with some differences at Düsseldorf which may be for the same unidentifed altarpiece as the present sheet.1 1. Düsseldorf, inv. no. K1969/2