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Inscription

Inscribed at top in the hand of Marcantonio Gandini: Mag[nifi]co S[igno]r Comp[ar]e/Mando a V[ostra] S[ignoria] li br[accia] 12 1/2 rassa, la/quale credo piacerà à cui/deve adoperarla; se in altro posso servirla ella mi comandi/et di core la saluto. Di trivigi a 18 7[em]bre 1582. D[i] V[ostra] S[ignoria]/Comp[are] aff[etuossissi]mo/+3/REMI Marc Ant[oni]o Gandino/pro 50 stampa a la sua spesa 100 folli che/sarano Carte 50. In another hand at lower left in brown ink: Paolo Veronese

Provenance

So-called Borghese Collection (Lugt 2103a, P:No:44); Emile Wauters, Paris (Lugt 911);(sale, Müller, Amsterdam, 15-16 June 1926, no. 32); Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1978, no. 30); John R. Gaines, Lexington, KY; (his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1986, no. 11); purchased by Armand Hammer for the National Gallery of Art, 1986.

Exhibition History

1987
Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1987, 88-90, no. 9.
1988
The Art of Paolo Veronese 1528-1588, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988-1989, no. 75.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.

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