Attributed to BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, called IL VOLTERRANO Angel of the Annunciation.

Attributed to BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, called IL VOLTERRANO

(Volterra 1611–1689 Florence)
Angel of the Annunciation.
Black chalk, heightened with white.
Verso with old attribution: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
24.9 × 17.7 cm.

Provenance:
- Carl Robert Rudolf collection, London (L. 2811b).
- Unknown old mark, recorded in particular on old master drawings from the collection of Christ Church, Oxford (L. 2870).
- Japanese private collection.
- Auction Mainichi, Tokyo, 14 October 2017, lot 1001, as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
- Japanese private collection.

Exhibited:
Kitakyushu 1981, Old master drawings from private collections in Japan, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 6 June–5 July 1981, no. 100, as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

Literature:
Exh. cat. Old master drawings from private collections in Japan, Kitakyushu 1981, p. 164, with ill. p. 114, as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.