Giovanni Balducci, il Cosci (Florence c. 1560-after 1631 Naples)

The Raising of Lazarus

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Giovanni Balducci, il Cosci (Florence c. 1560-after 1631 Naples)
The Raising of Lazarus
black chalk, pen and black ink (slightly sunk), brown wash on blue paper, lower right corner cut
13 x 10 in. (330 x 254 mm.); and five drawings attributed to Cambiaso, Ribera and other Italian hands (6)

Lot Essay

This is a study for the altarpiece in the chapel of San Antonino in the Church of San Marco, Florence, which is dated by Baldinucci to 1580 and is amongst Cosci's first work. Another related drawing is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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