Italian Drawings from a Private Collection, USA
Andrea Lilio
St. Francis of Paola holding a burning ember
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February 2, 06:17 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
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Italian Drawings from a Private Collection, USA
Andrea Lilio
1555 - 1642
St. Francis of Paola holding a burning ember
Black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash with two pentimenti on a separate piece of paper pasted down;
bears old attribution in black chalk, verso: Tavarone and numbering in brown ink, verso: 40.
256 by 184 mm; 10⅛ by 7¼ in.
Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt.;
Major Thomas Brooke;
E.H. Brooke;
sale, Paris, Christie's, 18 March 2004, lot 6,
where acquired
A study for one of six paintings on slate by Lilio depicting the life of St. Francis of Paola in the Santuario di San Francesco di Paola, the birthplace of the Saint.1A second preparatory drawing for the aforementioned series of paintings, executed in the same combination of media and of almost identical dimensions, was sold at Sotheby's Florence in 1984.2
1. See M. Pulini, Andrea Lilio, Milan 2003, p. 183, no. 103, reproduced p. 182, fig. 103
2. Ibid., p. 211, no. 31, reproduced p. 210, fig. 31 and erroneously referenced p. 184, as no. 13; Sale, Florence, Sotheby's, 9 May 1984, lot 12
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