Circle of GIORGIO VASARI (1511-1574)

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Circle of GIORGIO VASARI (1511-1574)

A Group of seven Bishop Saints attended by Putti holding a Scroll and a Chalice

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on brown prepared paper, the upper edges shaped
10½ x 10in. (269 x 254mm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 April 1992, lot 277, illustrated ((2,750)

Lot Essay

Comparable in type with the four Saints that flank the altarpiece in Santissima Donato e Ilariano, in the monastery at Camaldoli, which Vasari began painting in 1539, P. Barocchi, Vasari, Pittore, Milan, 1964, colour plate VII