Lot 457: POMPEO GHITTI

MARONE 1631 - 1703 BRESCIA REBECCA AT THE WELL, WITH OTHER FIGURE STUDIES Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk; bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, lower centre: Mano di Bernardino Poccetti 195 by 283 mm

Sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995, lot 31 (as Attributed to Bernardino Barbatelli, Il Poccetti), purchased by Ralph Holland

Althought this sheet bears an old attribution to Poccetti in the same hand as other annotations found in Poccetti's sheets in the Uffizi and elsewhere,1the graphic style of the present drawing seems to be the one of the Lombard artist Pompeo Ghitti. 1. See for instance P.C. Hamilton, Disegni di Bernardino Poccetti, Florence 1980, p. 32, no. 10, reproduced fig. 14