Bolognese School (Circa 1600)

Artist: Bolognese School (Circa 1600).
Title: Study of a child.
Medium: Black chalk on blue-laid paper.
Framed Size: Height 44.5 cm x Width 33.5 cm x Depth 1.5 cm.
Image Size: Height 23.5 cm x Width 13.5 cm.
Condition: Overall good condition with some oil stains from the artist's medium and some spots of foxing on the lower half of the drawing.
Provenance: Private Collection Sydney, Australia.
This work was part of a significant collection of old master drawings of which further provenance is currently being confirmed.

About: The Bolognese School or the School of Bologna flourished in the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, rivalling both Florence and Rome as the centre of painting. Its most important representatives are the Carracci family, including Ludovico Carracci and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino and Annibale Carracci. Later, it included several other Baroque painters.

Notably, this drawing holds a synergy with the putti figure in Annibale Carracci's Sleeping Venus 1605.