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Description: Laid down. Inscribed verso in pencil: "Merano / Jean Baptiste/ Hyllan 6"

Provenance: Count G.A. Sparre (Lugt 2719) ; Count J.G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a) ; Gift to the museum in 1973

There is little evidence to support this traditional attribution to Merano, though one can perhaps discern certain features in common with his drawing of Samson and Delilah in Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt. But a Netherlandish origin does seem likely. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 368]

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Giovanni Battista Merano | Stående figur, sedd snett bakifrån | Nationalmuseum