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Description: Laid down. Numbered verso i pen and brown ink: No 17., in pencil: 15.

Provenance: J.T. Sergel (Lugt 2339b)

The drawings of Fontebasso belong to two categories. There are the highly finished drawings which are pictures in themselves, even thought they were intended for the album of an amateur, rather than for the wall. Fontebasso also made drawings in pen and ink only, using a very characteristic method of hatching with the pen. Our drawing belongs to this group where Fontebasso seems strongly influenced by Ricci. It is extremely close to another drawing with a subject from the childhood of Christ, "The adornation of the magi", in Coll. Rasini, Milan. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 187]

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