A forest landscape with buildings and Tobias and the angel

Details

REMIGIO CANTAGALLINA (Borgo Sansepolcro CIRCA 1582-1656 Florence)
A forest landscape with buildings and Tobias and the angel
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, ink framing lines, watermark TR (?) in a shield
21.5 x 32.7 cm (8 1⁄2 x 13 7⁄8 in.)

Provenance

Rev. Dr. Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford; Sotheby's, London, 25 June-10 July 1866, part of lot 954 (‘a portfolio’ as by J. Ligozzi; £1.15s. to Noseda).
Sir David Kelly (1891-1959), London; Hodgsons, London, 26 November 1954, part of lot 596 (the album; £720 to Hans Calmann).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 1989, lot 356, ill. (as Flemish School, circa 1600).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Amsterdam, 10 November 1997, lot 44 (as circle of Pieter Stevens).
with Kate de Rothschild, London.

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Lot Essay

A similar composition in reverse can be found in an undescribed (?) etched landscape with Tobias and the angel by Cantagallina, of which an impression is at the Baltimore Museum of Art (inv. 1946.112.507; not recorded in Bartsch).

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