Lot Essay
The facial types and the thin, nervous line are paralleled in drawings such as The Madonna of Loreto with Saints and Donors in the Uffizi (no. 7363), Saint John the Evangelist in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Bean, 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no. 266, illustrated) and The Virgin and Child with Saint Lucy in the British Museum, J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Artists working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, London, 1983, I, no. 282, II, pl. 269