Lot 530: Guglielmo Caccia, il Moncalvo (Montabone 1568- circa 1625 Moncalvo)

Guglielmo Caccia, il Moncalvo (Montabone 1568-circa 1625 Moncalvo)
Noah and his family preparing to enter the Ark
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark three joined circles with a bird
15 x 11 5/8 in. (38 x 29.4 cm.), unframed

Sarasota, The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, The Bick Collection of Italian religious drawings, 1970, no. 8 (as Moncalvo).
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Italian drawings: selections from the collection of Esther S. and Malcolm W. Bick, eds. F.W. Robinson and J.T. Paoletti, 1971, no. 16 (as Moncalvo).

U. Ruggeri (ed.), Disegni veneti e lombardi dal XVI al XVIII secolo: dalle collezioni del Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe, exhib. cat., Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1989, p. 141, pl. 89.

A.L. de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin.
R. de Cerenville.
Malcolm W. and Esther Bick, by 1970.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1989, lot 98, as 'North Italian School, 16th Century'.
with Trinity Fine Art, London, An Exhibition of Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1800, 1990, no. 19.
with Trinity Fine Art, Paris, Salon du Dessin, Dessins Anciens de l'Ecole Lombarde, 2001, no. 14.

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The attribution of the present drawing was suggested independently by both Nancy Ward Neilson and Ugo Ruggeri (Trinity Fine Art, 1990, no. 19).