Tommaso Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano (1536-1571)

The Resurrection: Design for a frescoed altarpiece and altar flanked with a kneeling monastic female saint and a kneeling donatrix

Details

Tommaso Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano (1536-1571)
The Resurrection: Design for a frescoed altarpiece and altar flanked with a kneeling monastic female saint and a kneeling donatrix
inscribed 'SPQR' and numbered '599' on the mount
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on blue paper
, the outlines incised, arched
11 x 13¾ in. (280 x 350 mm.)

Provenance

C. Rogers (L. 624), his mount.
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
Sir Charles Robinson (L. 1433).
Kurt Meissner, his mark (not in Lugt).
Anon. sale, Christie's, 3 July 1990, lot 8 (£15,400).

Exhibited

Bremen and elsewhere, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, 1967, no. 61.

Lot Essay

Similar to drawings in the Louvre, C. Monbeig Goguel, Vasari et son Temps, Paris, 1992, nos. 46 and 48. The figure of Christ is inspired by Fra Bartolommeo's picture of the Salvator Mundi painted for the Billi chapel in the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and now in the Galleria Palatina. The right-hand soldier is taken from Raphael's design for the Resurrection in the Chigi Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.
A predella painting of the same subject by Maso da San Friano is in the Casa Vasari in Arezzo.

More from Important Old Master Drawings

View All