Pen and brown ink over traces in black chalk. 84 x 124 mm.

PROVENANCE: heirs of Giovanni Finazzi, Bergamo.

The drawing is preparatory, in reverse, for the etching

Sosta di Somarelli

(Baboni Malesci LXXIV). The etching and our drawing must be dated before 1888, when an impression of the print was purchased by the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.