
Luca CarlevariisItalian, 1663–1730May one see it?
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
A study of a gentleman in a blue cloak and black hat. This work is part of an album of fifty-three sketches by Carlevarijs which includes figures he appears to have painted in the open air in preparation for insertion into formal compositions.This figure reappears for example in the right foreground of The Entry of the French Ambassador Henri-Charles Arnauld, Abbot of Pomponne, into the Palazzo Ducale formerly in the collection of the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (NK 2929) and now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. C1612)
Victoria and Albert Museum