Bartolomeo Schedoni (1578-1651) Study of Youths with Mandolin, and Arm upheld – design for a compartment Black and white chalk on blue-grey paper 12.5 x 19.7 cm Provenance: Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364); R.E.A. Wilson, 1934, Sir Michael Sadler Schedoni was highly valued as a draughtsman. The poet Giambattista Marino wrote 18 letters between 1609 and 1614 in order to obtain a work by Schedoni to add to his collection of drawings by celebrated masters.