Lot Essay
The Curradi drawing is related to the angel at the left of The Presentation of the Virgin in Santa Marta, Florence. A study for the figure of Saint Joachim is in the Gabinetto Nazionale, Rome, S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Disegni Fiorentini 1560-1640, Rome, 1977, nos. 74, illustrated. A study for the High Priest was exhibited by Katrin Bellinger, Drawings in Florence 1500-1650, 1991, no. 22, illustrated