* Andrea Boscoli Florence 1560 - 1607 (?)

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Description

Andrea Boscoli
a design for a book illustration: a young woman addressing a group of centaurs
inscribed by the artist: Oliva predica asse stessa: La Cavallina Forghia?
pen and brown ink and wash

Provenance

With C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Lagerliste 56, 1971, no. 112, reproduced

Catalogue Note

Characteristic of Boscoli in the use of wash and in the charming figures, this drawing resembles a group of illustrations by the artist of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which are of the same size and format and similarly inscribed (see Christel Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarock, Munich 1977, pls. 50, 51; p. 299). The subject of this drawing does not, however, seem to come from Ovid.