LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black, red, ochre and white chalks, traces of stylus

Measurements:

16.54 in. (42.00 cm.) (height) by 11.81 in. (30.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

watermark kneeling saint in cartouche (cf. Briquet 7628, Fabriano 1602)

Exhibited:

Bologna, Museo Civico, Mostra di Federico Barocci, 1975, no. 303.

Literature:

G.G. Bertelà, Disegni di Federico Barocci, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Uffizi, 1975, under no. 124. J. Shearman, 'Barocci at Bologna and Florence', The Burlington Magazine, January 1976, p. 51. E.P. Pillsbury, review of Florence, 1975 and Bologna, 1975, Master Drawings, XIV, Spring 1976, p. 59. A. Emiliani, Federico Barocci, Bologna, 1985, II, no. 930, illustrated. L. Vertova, 'Un Disegno compito del Barroccio per la Madonna della Culla di Casa Albani', Antichità viva, XXVIII, 1989, no. 2-3, pp. 26-34, fig. 15. A. Emiliani, Federico Barocci, Ancona, 2008, II, no. 87.2.

Provenance:

Probably Emilie Pellapra, Comtesse de Brigode (1808-1871), and by descent.