Lot 50
  • 50

Cesare Dandini Florence 1596 - 1657

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Cesare Dandini
  • clorinda interceding to save olindo and sofronia from the stake
  • red chalk over black chalk, within black chalk framing lines 

Catalogue Note

The subject is taken from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, Book II.  The attribution was proposed by Nicholas Turner and confirmed by Sandro Bellesi who is the author of a catalogue raisonĂ©e of the work of Cesare Dandini.  He dates this drawing to the 1630s.