Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO | TWO STUDIES OF KNEELING APOSTLES
Auction Closed
January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
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BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO
Volterra 1611 - 1689 Florence
TWO STUDIES OF KNEELING APOSTLES:
A: RECTO: A FIGURE OF A KNEELING APOSTLE, SEEN FROM BEHIND; VERSO: ANOTHER STUDY FOR THE SAME FIGURE, SEEN FROM BEHIND
B: RECTO: A KNEELING APOSTLE WITH HIS HANDS CLASPED; VERSO: A DRAPED FIGURE LOOKING UPWARDS AND A SUBSIDIARY STUDY OF DRAPERY
Both red chalk, heightened with white chalk;
A: inscribed in red chalk, upper right: R0 D Mo defrari
405 by 268 mm; 16 by 10 in
390 by 268 mm; 15⅜ by 10 in
(2)
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1994, lots 57 and 58
These vibrant and freely executed studies in red and white chalk are preparatory for Volterrano's ceiling painting of The Assumption of the Virgin, executed in 1670 for the central section of the nave of the church of SS. Annunziata, Florence. Other studies related to the same figure in the left foreground of the painting have also survived.1
1. Il Seicento Fiorentino, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1986, vol. II, p. 343, no. 2.311, reproduced.