Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Avanzino Nucci
Saint Peter healing a paralytic
Auction Closed
January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Avanzino Nucci
Città di Castillo 1551 - 1629 Rome
Saint Peter healing a paralytic
Red chalk and red wash over traces of black chalk, within pen and brown ink framing lines; arched top and lower corners cut;
bears old attribution on the mount, twice, lower left: Lanfranco and lower center: Lanfranco./1639 and numbering upper center: 94 or 24? and also bears initials and numbering in pen and brown ink, verso: YO / no. 103
unframed: 422 by 275 mm; 16 ⅝ by 10 ⅞ in
framed: 585 by 430 mm; 23 by 17 in
Please note that this drawing, by Avanzino Nucci, is based on a painting by Ludovico Cardi, known as Cigoli (1599-1613). The painting, now lost, was commissioned for St. Peter’s Basilica by Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese). The damaged work was replaced by a mosaic in the 18th Century. The composition is known today by a number of drawings in the Uffizi and several engravings (see F. Faranda, Ludovico Cardi detto il Cigoli, Rome 1986, pp. 161-162, nos. 75a- 75d, reproduced).
Bears unidentified collector's mark (L.1753)