Red chalk, squared in black chalk. Inscribed in pen at bottom Luca Cangiaso. Unidentified watermark. 260 x 305 mm.
We owe Marco Ciampolini the first focus on this Sienese painter and the proposal to attribute to him this drawing, another kept at the Getty and a couple of paintings. Giuseppe was the son of the painter Ilario Casolani and the grandson of Alessandro. Until Ciampolini research, the artist was known only from documents.
See Marco Ciampolini, I Pittori Senesi del Seicento, vol.I, 2010; pp. 133, 134.