Attributed to Jacopo Vignali

Hinged in two places at the top. Top and bottom corners made up. Some thinning of the paper to the left, top and right margins. Some small losses and tears repaired especially to the left side and two small losses to the right side. The drawing must have been detached from an old backing. It has some light staining to the top and to the left margin and some surface dirt. Chalk strong and fresh. Sold in a modern wooden and gilded frame.
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Most probably a portrait, executed from life, the present drawing, in two colours of chalk, bears close stylistic similarities with the work of Jacopo Vignali, whose drawings are often reminiscent and associated with the better known Carlo Dolci. Dolci joined Vignali's workshop before he was ten years old. Vignali himself was a precocious and very gifted draftsman, and he soon became the favourite pupil of Matteo Rosselli and by 1625 he had his own workshop. The present sheet also shows some stylistic affinities with Matteo Rosselli's work.