Baldassare Franceschini, il Volterrano (1611-1689)

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Baldassare Franceschini, il Volterrano (1611-1689)

Study of a Male Figure, half-length, with his arms outstretched, and studies of a leg and a foot

black and white chalk, watermark fragmentary encircled device under a cross
254 x 410mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 3 July 1980, lot 17, illustrated (£400).

Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-86, no. 41, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The present drawing is for the figure of Christ in the fresco Saint Martin dividing his Cloak in the Palazzo Duca di San Clemente, Florence, painted circa 1650, G. Cantelli, Repertorio della Pittura Fiorentina del Seicento, Florence, 1983, p. 388, illustrated.
Another drawing related to that picture is in the Uffizi, A. Petrioli Tofani, Maestri del Sei e Settecento Toscano, Florence, 1977, no. 26, illustrated.

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