Sheet of Studies

Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio (circa 1499 - circa 1543)

Fitzwilliam Museum

circa 1527

Recto: The face of a youth supported on his left hand, two standing women with a child and the Madonna of the Annunciation. Verso: Two Head Studies, and four separate studies of the Madonna of the Annunciation and the head of a youth in profile.

• Medium: red chalk on paper
• Dimensions: 11 x 15.6cm
• Art Fund Grant: £100000 ( Total: £150,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Executors of the late Mrs Myril Pouncey

Provenance

Possibly Samuel Palmer, 1837; almost certainly John Linnell; by descent to his grand-daughter Mrs T H Riches; Sotheby's, 1950; Calmann; Philip Pouncey; Myril Pouncey.

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