Giovanni Balducci, il Cosci (active 1590-1603)

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Giovanni Balducci, il Cosci (active 1590-1603)

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on blue paper, armorial watermark
280 x 191mm.

Provenance

Benno Geiger, according to Sotheby's catalogue
W. Koenig (L. 2653b)
M. Gaud; Sotheby's, Monaco, 20 June 1987, lot 62, illustrated in colour (111,000 FF)

Literature

C. Bambach Cappel, review of The Uffizi's Sixteenth-Century Drawings in Detroit and some Tuscan Drawings in Philadelphia, Master Drawings, 1990, XXVIII, fig. 1

Lot Essay

Drawings of comparable style and technique include The Calling of Saint Peter in the Uffizi and The Lamentation in the British Museum, A Petrioli Tofani and G. Smith, Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Drawings from the Uffizi, Oxford, 1988, no. 63, illustrated and N. Turner, Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1986, no. 178, illustrated. A picture of the subject by Balducci, for which the present study may be a primo pensiero, is in the collection of Dr. Croce, C. Bambach Cappel, op. cit., fig. 2

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