Italian Drawings from a Private Collection, USA
Giovanni Andrea Sirani
Design for an apse: The Apotheosis of St. Francis, surrounded by Angels
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February 2, 06:23 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Italian Drawings from a Private Collection, USA
Giovanni Andrea Sirani
1610 - 1670
Design for an apse: The Apotheosis of St. Francis, surrounded by Angels
Pen and brown ink and wash, over red chalk, arched top
273 by 406 mm; 10¾ by 16 in.
Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (with his mount and attribution: Seroni, in the hand formerly identified as William Kent's);
thence by descent,
sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1991, lot 40;
Private Collection, Santa Barbara,
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 1999, lot 49,
where acquired
A.E. Popham and C. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings at Holkham Hall, Chicago 1986, no.245
Although it has not been possible to relate this design to any known work, the old attribution can be supported by comparison with two drawings by Sirani in the Uffizi, Florence.1 The influence of Lodovico Carracci is very strong in all three drawings. Giovanni Andrea was the father of the female painter Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665).
1. see C. Johnston, Mostra di Disegni Bolognesi, Florence 1973, cat. nos. 72-73, figs. 51-52
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