A standing apostle turned to the right

Details

Circle of Pietro Perugino (Città della Pieve circa 1450-1523 Fontignano)
A standing apostle turned to the right
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper, upper corners made up, on an 18th Century English mount
7 x 2¼ in. (178 x 57 mm.)

Provenance

J. Richardson Sr. (L. 2183), his mount with inscription 'Pietro Perugino' and shelfmark 'B 56 54. FF. 12. e.'.
A. Pond (L. 2038), his inscription 'He died An°. 1524.' on the mount.
J. Barnard (L. 1419), his inscription 'N°: 162. 7 by 2¼' on the mount.
T. Banks (L. 1423), and by descent to his grandson
Sir Edward Poynter (L. 874); Sotheby's, London, 24-25 April 1918, lot 45.

Lot Essay

This figure appears, with differences to the upper part of the body, in at least four altarpieces from Perugino's studio, two of The Assumption of the Virgin (in the Church of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence, and Santa Maria, Corciano), and two of The Ascension (Musée de Beaux-Arts, Lyon, and in the Duomo, San Sepolcro, P. Scarpellini, Perugino, Milan, 1984, nos. 145, 165, 74 and 153).

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