Giovanni Lanfranco

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

Giovanni Lanfranco
Pope Gregory kneeling before a painting of the Virgin
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk, within black ink framing lines;
bears inscription, lower right: Giacomo Palma Veccio / Palma
278 x 221 mm (sight)

Provenance

William Young Ottley (L.2663);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 April 1995, lot 51;
sale, London Sotheby's, 18 April 1996, lot 220

Catalogue Note

This drawing cannot be connected with a known painting by Lanfranco, although a second study by the artist, of the same composition but with a number of differences, was sold in these Rooms in 1990.¹

^1. The Procession of Pope Gregory, with the Castel Sant'Angelo in the background, sale, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1990, lot 143