Considered a copy of a portrait by El Greco, the more detailed technique deployed here lacks the loose boldness of his brushstroke but the composition and some of the elements within it remain close t [+]
Formerly attributed to Bartolomeo Passerotti (1529-1592), presumably on account of the broad cross-hatching in pen, a technique that is characteristic of drawings by this artist. On the other hand, th [+]
On the verso are extensive notes about the Flemish sculptor Pietro Francavilla (1548-1615). Francavilla received his early training in Paris and Innsbruck. Archduke Ferdinand of Austria provided him w [+]
The drawing was in the collections of Brun (?) and Fernández Durán´s as Passerotti (1529-1592), from whose style it is however rather different. A pencil attribution to Brizio on the rev [+]