Circle of Juan Carreño de Miranda

Study of a man, head and shoulders, possibly Saint John the Baptist

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Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz

Circle of Juan Carreño de Miranda

Study of a man, head and shoulders, possibly Saint John the Baptist

Red, black and white chalk on light brown paper;

bears the remains of illegible inscriptions in brown ink, lower right and in red chalk, verso

303 by 245 mm

Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a),
by inheritance to his nephew, Michael Ingram (his collector's mark, not in Lugt),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 10 (as Circle of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Study of a Youth, Head and Shoulders),
where purchased by the present owner

It has been suggested, by Dr. Zahira Véliz, former curator of the Apelles Collection, that this grand and sensitively drawn study of a man, executed in a combination of red, black and white chalk, is stylistically close to the Spanish artist, Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-1685) and could be by an artist working in his circle. Carreño de Miranda drew inspiration from the Flemish Masters and was very much inspired by Rubens.
For further examples of this artist's chalk drawings see: Carreño de Miranda dibujos, exhib.cat., Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, 2017.