Pietro Novelli, il Monrealese (1603-1647)

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Pietro Novelli, il Monrealese (1603-1647)

The Coronation of the Virgin

with inscriptions 'Do Novelli' and 'EC2/62' and '57' on the mount; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, ink gall damages, circular
192mm. diam.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 12 December 1978, lot 41, illustrated (£300).

Literature

A Mazzé and G. Di Stefano, Pietro Novelli, Palermo, 1989, no. 122, illustrated.

Exhibited

Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, 1984, no. 3.53, illustrated.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-86, no. 37, illustrated.
Palermo, Albergo dei Poveri, Pietro Novelli e il suo Ambiente, 1990, II.6, illustrated.

Lot Essay

This drawing was originally related to the central figures of the ceiling of the Oratory del Rosario of San Domenico in Palermo, datable to 1628, Palermo, loc. cit., II.4, illustrated. The altarpiece for the Oratory had been commissioned from Van Dyck when the Flemish artist came to Palermo, and had been delivered in 1624.
Turi Lombardo later connected the present drawing to a small fresco in the Church of Santa Maria del Canceliere, Palermo, now destroyed but known through a reproduction, Palermo, loc. cit., II.6.

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