Lot Essay
Peter Fuhring compares the present drawings to two studies in the Uffizi, A.E. Pérez Sánchez, Mostra di Disegni Spagnoli, 1972, nos. 114 and 117, figs. 88 and 90
Details
Francesco Rizzi (1614-1684)
Design for the Frame of an Altarpiece of the Crucifix, with putti holding the Sudarium of Saint Veronica above, with alternative treatments with putti holding the Instruments of the Passion and acanthus
inscribed '240Rs'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
21 1/4 x 13 5/8in. 540 x 356mm.
Design for the Frame of an Altarpiece of the Crucifix, with putti holding the Sudarium of Saint Veronica above, with alternative treatments with putti holding the Instruments of the Passion and acanthus
inscribed '240Rs'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
21 1/4 x 13 5/8in. 540 x 356mm.
Provenance
Kornfeld, Geneva, 1979
L. Houthakker, his mark
L. Houthakker, his mark
Literature
P. Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, 1989, I, no.282, illustrated