Lot 66: GIACOMO CAVEDONE | Recto: Madonna and Child seated on clouds verso: Study of hands

Black chalk (recto and verso) heightened with white (recto) on blue paper

378 by 273 mm

Black chalk (<em>recto </em>and <em>verso</em>) heightened with white (<em>recto</em>) on blue paper

Condition generally good . Slightly stained near the top margin and also lighter stains below the Madonna's head, although not very visible. Paper still blue and charcoal fresh. Some thinning of the paper at the upper edge and a beginning of a tiny tear toward the left margin. A trace of an old vertical fold near the left-hand margin, although only visible from the verso. A few other stains, barely visible, on the Madonna's cloak.
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Francesco Giusti, Bologna (catalogue 1862, book iii); 
Freiherr Koenig-Fachsenfeld (bears his collector's mark, not in Lugt);
Werner R. Deusch (bears his dry stamp, not in Lugt);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2006, lot 61