FLEMISH SCHOOL

Red chalk with transfer grid in black chalk, on thick laid paper, 243 x 175 mm, unsigned (three stains at upper left, sm. tear at right edge). Probably a workshop model drawing of a Flemish artist for a larger painting, as indicated by the squaring grid. Although attributed to Hieronymus Wierix on the verso, the drawing bares little relationship to the minute drawing and engraving style of the Antwerp artist