Attributed to Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga (Florence 1501-1547 Rome)

Saint Mark (recto); Figure Studies (verso)

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Attributed to Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga (Florence 1501-1547 Rome)
Saint Mark (recto); Figure Studies (verso)
with inscriptions 'S:P:P' (verso) and 'Perino del Vago. f' and '3' on the backing
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (recto), pen and brown ink (verso) on grey-blue paper
9½ x 6 5/8 in. (241 x 161 mm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 April 1987, lot 102.

Lot Essay

Related to the figure in the fresco of Saints Mark and John the Evangelist on the vault of the Cappella del Crocifisso in San Marcello al Corso, Rome. The fresco was painted before Perino's departure from Rome in 1527. The pair of Evangelists on the other side, Saints Luke and Matthew, were completed by Daniele de Volterra under Perino's supervision after his return from Genoa in 1539. There is a preliminary drawing for both Evangelists at Windsor, and a study for Saint Mark in the Albertina (E. Parma, Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo, exhib. cat., Mantua, Palazzo Te, 2001, no. 59).

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