PITTONI Giovanni Battista the Elder (Attributed to). Vicenza 1520 – id.; 1583. Village in the Italian countryside near the church Pen and brown ink. Mounted on paper (minor foxing). Top left: circular collector’s mark featuring a seated lion belonging to Ludwig Zataka (Vienna 1857 – Spital am Semmering 1925), an architect in Vienna (Lugt. 2672). On the reverse of the backing sheet, three annotations in black chalk in German; the second line reads G. B (?) Pittoni J. Altere. H. 11.8 – L. 20.5 cm. For more information on the landscape drawings from the Venetian school in Ludwig Zarzka’s collection, please refer to the recent entry on the website of the Dutch Institute regarding “Collection Marks on Drawings and Prints.”