Pier Francesco Foschi (1502-1567)

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Pier Francesco Foschi (1502-1567)

Project for a Mural: a fictive Triptych, the Crucifixion with Saints Jerome and Francis (centre), Saint Michael (left) and Tobias and the Angel (right), figures adoring the Cross in a roundel in a cove, and roundels of the Angel of the Annunciation and the Virgin Annunciate above

numbered '15', black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash heightened with white, on grey prepared paper
319 x 246 mm.

Literature

M. Pouncey, Five Drawings by Pierfrancesco di Jacopo di Domenico Toschi, The Burlington Magazine, 1957, p. 159, pl. 22
A. Forlani, Disegni Italiani del Cinquecento, Florence, 1962, p.243, pl. 94

Exhibited

Edinburgh, The Merchants' Hall, Italian 16th Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969, no. 36, pl. 56
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Il primato del disegno, 1980, no. 221

Lot Essay

Dr. Alfred Scharf pointed out that this is a preparatory study for a fresco over the altar of the oratory in the Villa Rosselli del Turco (now Franceschi) at Poggio alla Noce, near Ponte a Ema. The fresco was, according to an inscription on the wall, painted in 1545

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