Alessandro Casolani Siena 1552 - 1606

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Description

Alessandro Casolani
a seated youth holding a bundle of sticks
black chalk heightened with white, with traces of red chalk, on blue paper; laid down and made up along the left edge

Provenance

H. Lempertz Sr. (L.1337)

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Italiaanse Tekeningen, 1970, cat. no. 79, reproduced p. 76, fig. 53

Catalogue Note

According to the Amsterdam catalogue, the attribution was originally proposed by Philip Pouncey, who compared this drawing with a sheet of male nude studies now in the Princeton University Art Gallery (see F. Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings..., Princeton 1977, vol. I, p. 62, cat. no. 169, reproduced vol. 2). The figure could be intended for a scene of martyrdom.