Lot 52
52
Cesare Dandini (1595-1658)

Details
Cesare Dandini (1595-1658)

A sleeping Boy

signed with monogram 'C.D.'; red chalk, irregular shape
6¼ x 7in. (158 x 178mm.)
Provenance
With Walter Schatzki, New York, 1962.
Literature
C. Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner der Frühbarock, Munich, 1977, no. 157, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Similar heads of babies are found in two pictures of Charity, in a private collection in Milan (M. Gregori, 70 Pitture e Sculture del '600 e'700 fiorentino, exhib. cat., Florence, 1965, no. 10, illustrated) and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, M. Gregori, Cesare Dandini Pittore del '600 fiorentino, Comma, 1969, IV, illustrated p. 9.