pencil, watercolor/paper, 20x12.5 cm; inscription on the binding: ... Sixtus IV
The work comes from the so-called Ehrenpreis Album; i.e., the artist's sketchbook from the early period of his work (circa 1839), which belonged to the collection of Zygmunt and Jadwiga Ehrenpreis in Cracow (37 watercolors);
watercolor based on a fragment of a Vatican fresco by Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494), executed in 1477
state of preservation: good; museum glass;
- private collection, Warsaw;