Saint Andrew

Details

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (Sermoneta circa 1521-1575 Rome)
Saint Andrew
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on grey prepared paper, partly squared with a stylus, the outlines pricked for transfer
11 5/8 x 5¾ in. (29.5 x 14.5 cm.)

Provenance

M. Marignane (L.1872).
Ian Woodner, New York; Christie's, London, 7 July 1992, lot 16 (as North Italian School, circa 1545).
with Colnaghi, London, where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, William H. Schab Gallery, and elsewhere, Woodner Collection 1, A selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, 1971-2, no. 27 (as Bartolommeo Montagna ?).

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Lot Essay

Possibly related to a figure in the church of Sant'Andrea on via Flaminia, Rome. Siciolante received a commission from Pope Julius III to paint an altarpiece for that church in 1553, which was flanked by four paintings of saints Andrew, Peter, John and Paul (now destroyed).

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