Live Auction 8344Old Master Drawings
Lot 100

Pietro Buonaccorsi, Perino del Vaga (1501-1547)

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Pietro Buonaccorsi, Perino del Vaga (1501-1547)

The Virgin enthroned, with Saints Gregory (?) and James (?), and a Family of Donors: Design for an Altarpiece

with inscription '9fr. A.S.D.' (?) upper right; pen and brown ink, gray wash, squared in black chalk, arched, the lower left corner made up
14 1/8 x 10in. (358 x 255mm.)

Sir Peter Lely (L. 2092).
William, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (L. 718) and by descent.
Chatsworth, no. 152.
The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement; Christie's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 34, illustrated (£18,360 to the present owner).

Specialist note

James Byam Shaw remarked that this was 'a fine example of Perino's mature style'. A.E. Popham dated the drawing to Perino's Genoese period, circa 1527 to 1537. Michael Jaffé compares the drawing with one in the Kunsthaus, Zürich, executed for the altarpiece of the Chapel of Saint George and Saint John in the Duomo, Pisa.
Bernice Davidson dates the drawing to the early 1530s.