ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE

ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE, IL GRECHETTO (1609-1664) SHEPHERDS AND CATTLE FORDING A STREAM brush and brown and blue wash watermark, a fleur de lys within a double circle, 19.4 x 30cm, unframedProvenance: unidentified collector's stamp, anon sale, Christie's, 11 December 1990, lot 37 (£9,350) as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.Comparative Literature: Blunt (A) The Drawings of G B Castiglione & Stafano della Bella, 1954, p 120, plt 9, a similar composition of circa 1640, - in the Royal Collection.