Attributed to Paolo Caliari, called Il Veronese

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Description

Paolo Caliari, called Il Veronese
Study of a Seated Negro Boy Eating Fruit
black and white chalk on brown prepared paper
6 1/8 in. by 7 7/8 in.
15.5 cm by 20 cm

stamped with collector's mark lower left

Provenance

Mrs. B. L. Stedall
Archibald George Bloomfield Russell, London (Lugt 2770a)
His sale, Sotheby, London, June 9, 1959, lot 13
Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York

Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1963

Literature

D. van Hadeln, Vasari Society, 2nd series, Part VIII, No. 4, illustrated (as Veronese)
Tietze, H. and E., The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, No. A2109, New York, 1944 (as Bolognese School)
Richard Cocke, Veronese's Drawings, A Catalogue Raisonné, Sotheby Publications, London, 1984 (as Attributed to Veronese)

Catalogue Note

Richard Cocke, in his catalogue raisonné of Veronese’s drawings agrees with van Hadeln’s comparison to the Studies of Negroes by Veronese in the Lehman Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the Louvre, Cocke nos. 68 and 54; but nonetheless he includes this drawing in his Attributed To section, acknowledging that he had only known the drawing from a photograph. He also agrees with van Hadeln’s assumption that the work was a study drawn from life.