P 1 :JZP
0521551335 c 06 CUNY 160 /Joannides 052155 133 1 January 11 , 2007 11 : 50
354 COPIES AFTER PAINTINGS CATALOGUE 89
Condition
The sheet is undulating severely. There are some inher-
ent diagonal wrinkles and some handling creases. There
are minor infilled losses, a small edge nick with a
flap of paper still attached, repaired edge tears with
ingrained dirt, abrasion, local staining, and smudging
of the medium. The sheet has some foxing and exten-
sive uneven discolouration with local staining in upper
corners. The primary support is drummed by the four
edges to the backboard of the mount, so the verso is not
visible.
Inscription
Tothe lower right in pen and ink:M.oAngelo fe.Atthe
base of the sheet in pen and ink, the letterD.
Discussion
The drawing contains the colour indications R(osso),
B(ianco), V(erde) in black chalk, perhaps by the artist.
It is closely linked with, perhaps even copied from, a
copy of theIonasin the Louvre (Inv. 741 /J 264 ;black
chalk, 398 × 279 mm, without colour indications), which
seems to the compiler of slightly higher quality. The Lou-
vre drawing has been given both to Daniele da Volterra
and Giulio Clovio. In the compiler’s view, the attribu-
tion to Daniele is closer to the mark, and it may well be
byone of the artists working with him in the late15 4 0s
and in the155 0s, who included some of the most talented
painters of the younger generation, such as Marco Pino
and Pellegrino Tibaldi as well as the Spaniards Navarette
and Gaspar Becerra; drawings by Becerra in particular