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Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529-1592)
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Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529-1592)

The Deposition with Saints Bernardino of Siena and Clare (?)

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Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529-1592)
The Deposition with Saints Bernardino of Siena and Clare (?)
pen and two shades of brown ink, heightened with white, on grey-blue paper, partly in an inscribed arch, silhouetted
14½ x 10¼ in. (370 x 260 mm.)
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Lot Essay

Dr Corinna Höper has kindly confirmed the attribution to Passarotti, on the basis of a photograph, in a communication dated 9 May 2006. Dr Höper notes that although no painting of the subject is known the present work is 'a very fine example of the art of drawing by Bartolomeo Passarotti'.

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