ITALIAN SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY Winter Gives Way to

ITALIAN SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY
Winter Gives Way to Spring, An Old Man Warming his Hands and a Putto with a Cornucopia (Allegory of Old Age and Youth).
Pen and brown ink with black chalk and white gouache heightening on cream laid paper mounted on card stock. 210x300mm; 8¼x11½ inches.Provenance: Private collection, Massachusetts.This work may relate to Il Pordenone's (Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis, 1484-1539), An Allegory of Time, pen and ink and wash and black chalk heightened with white gouache, early 1530s, which sold at Christie's, London, July 3, 1984, lot 36. This composition was also used for a chiaroscuro woodcut by Giuseppe Nicolò Vicentino (active first half 16th century).