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FRANCESCO ALLEGRINI (Gubbio 1624 - Rome 1663) GROUP OF FIGHTING FIGURES
Pen and brown ink, 72 x 110 mm. PROVENANCE: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Lugt 2445; Contessa Rosa Piatti Lochis Crocetta, Lugt 2026c on the mount and her stamped number '2'; Ferruccio Asta (1900-1952), Lugt 116a on the mount.

A pupil of Cavalier d'Arpino, Francesco Allegrini was a prolific draughtsman; there are groups of his drawings, usually quite small in size, in public collections in Berlin, Edinburgh and New York. See Jacob Bean, '17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art', New York, 1979; pp. 16-33.