Lot 1058: Studio of Niccolo dell' Abbate (Modena circa 1509-1571)

Studio of Niccolo dell' Abbate (Modena circa 1509-1571)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on light brown paper, minor losses
19¼ x 15¼ in. (49 x 38.8 cm.)

Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, The Hatton Gallery, Pleasure in Drawings, 1980, no. 1.
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, and Northampton, Museum and Art Gallery, For the Love of Drawing: Drawings from an Oxfordshire Private Collection, 2002, unnumbered.

Earl Spencer (L. 1530).
The Marquess of Lansdowne (according to an inscription on the verso of the mount).
J.P. Heseltine (according to an inscription on the verso of the mount).
Mrs H.F. Ezekial; Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1949, lot 37 (4 to Squire).
H.N. Squire; sold by his widow, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1979, lot 31.
with Alister Mathews, May 1980, no. 105; from whom purchased by the present owner.