Francesco Londonio

Ludwig Pollak (1868-1943), Rome (L.788b);

Giancarlo Baroni (1926-2007), Florence,

his estate sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 30 January 2013, lot 141;

Private collection;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 2019, lot 333

This lively drawing of a young shepherd eating while resting on a large rock is a characteristic example of Francesco Londonio’s portrayals of everyday subjects. Executed in a distinctive combination of black chalk heightened with white, both the technique and subject matter of the present work are readily comparable to numerous other studies by the artist, such as that of a Seated Peasant Woman, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,¹ or a sheet with Two Studies of a Seated Old Man, at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.²

¹National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., inv. no. 1985.1.39

²Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,Mass inv. no. 1964.83