ITALIAN SCHOOL, 17TH-CENTURY

Minerva Appearing to Cadmus While Battling a Dragon. Pen and brown ink and wash and blue wash on cream laid paper. 223x267 mm; 8x10 inches. Inscribed "Batt Marcola" in ink, verso. With a drawing of Saint Stephen in pencil, verso. A comparable drawing by Giuseppe Cesari, Il Cavaliere d'Arpino, Perseus befreit Andromeda, is in the Albertina, Vienna, inv. no. 761.