ITALIAN school around 1500, entourage of Andrea... Lot 20

ITALIAN school around 1500, entourage of Andrea MANTEGNA A soldier at rest Pen and brown ink, grey wash. 27 x 18,5 cm Inscribed lower right with Andrea Mantegna / Padoan. Bears on the lower left the stamp of the collection Émile Wauters (Lugt n° 911) and on the lower right the stamp of an illegible collection. Wear and tear. Provenance: - Émile Wauters Collection, Amsterdam; - Wauters sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller, June 15-16, 1926, n°112 (as Mantegna). Bibliography: - G.F.W. Lees, The art of the great masters, as exemplified by drawings in the collection of Émile Wauters, London, 1913, pp.8-9, fig. 11. A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries at Windsor Castle, London, 1949, p. 174, under n°16. Probably after a lost early painting by Mantegna.