Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofalo
A Bishop seated with his left hand on a book, two young men kneeling nearby and a third standing behind, in an architectural setting
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofalo
Ferrara 1481 - 1559
A Bishop seated with his left hand on a book, two young men kneeling nearby and a third standing behind, in an architectural setting
Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk, heightened with partly oxidised white, within a niche drawn in pen and ink and oxidised white;
bears old attribution in brown ink, lower right: Polidoro
248 by 143 mm
This highly characteristic study by the "Ferrarese Raphael" first came to light in 2007 (see Provenance) with its discovery proving to be an important and rare addition to Garofalo's drawn oeuvre. Although it cannot be directly connected with any surviving painting by the artist it is highly comparable, on stylistic grounds, to the Virgin and Child with Saints in the British Museum, London, which Philip Pouncey attributed to Garofalo and which is a preparatory study for his altarpiece of 1524 in San Silvestro, Ferrara.1 The handling of pen and the idiosyncratic facial types found in both the present work and the British Museum drawing are particularly compelling.
1. See A. Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo, Rimini 1993, p. 270, no. 4, reproduced