Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano
STUDIES FOR A CATAFALQUE (RECTO AND VERSO)
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Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano
VOLTERRA 1611 - 1689 FLORENCE
STUDIES FOR A CATAFALQUE (RECTO AND VERSO)
Red chalk and pen and brown ink (recto);
Red chalk (verso);
inscribed in red chalk, recto: PRYNCEPS MATI
290 by 207 mm; 11 7/16 by 8 1/8 in
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Red chalk (verso);
inscribed in red chalk, recto: PRYNCEPS MATI
290 by 207 mm; 11 7/16 by 8 1/8 in
Provenance
Kurt Cassirer, from a collection of Volterrano drawings formerly in Florence;
Rudolf and Margot Wittkower,
by whose Estate sold, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 308
Rudolf and Margot Wittkower,
by whose Estate sold, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 308
Exhibited
London, The Courtauld Institute, Architectural and Decorative Drawings, 1941, no. 12
Catalogue Note
The inscription on the recto suggests that the catafalque was intended for the funeral of Prince Mathias de'Medici, son of Cosimo II, who died in 1667.
Suggested Lots
Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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