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Pellegrino Tibaldi

A female figure looking upwards, her hands joined in prayer

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July 7, 10:53 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pellegrino Tibaldi

Bologna 1527 - 1596 Milan

A female figure looking upwards, her hands joined in prayer

Black chalk and stumping, heightened white chalk, some contours lightly indented


293 by 226 mm

Maurice Marignane (1879-1956), Paris (L.1872);
Hubert Marignane (1921-2002), Paris (L.5120)
Though we have not been able to connect this figure with any painted work by Tibaldi, this previously unattributed drawing must date from the early 1550s.  At that time Tibaldi was frescoing the walls of the Poggi Chapel, in S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna.  The monumentality of the present female figure is typical of Tibaldi's style, clearly paying homage to Michelangelo, and closely comparable to the painted female figure to the right of the frescoed composition the Prediction of the Baptist's Birth in the Poggi Chapel. 
The subtle use of the black chalk with dense parallel strokes is also very characteristic of his graphic style.