Attributed to Sebastiano Filippi, Il Bastianino (Ferrara 1532-1602)
Attributed to Sebastiano Filippi, Il Bastianino (Ferrara 1532-1602)

A sprawling male nude

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Attributed to Sebastiano Filippi, Il Bastianino (Ferrara 1532-1602)
A sprawling male nude
with ink number '43' (in a box, upper right)
black and white chalk on blue paper
10 3/8 x 15 5/8 in. (26.4 x 39.8 cm.)

Lot Essay

Stylistically and technically rather close to a drawing at Christ Church, Oxford (Inv. JBC 908) which Philip Pouncey identified as a study for The Last Judgement in Arcipretale, Rovello Porro (P. Pouncey, Raccolta di Scritti (1937-1985), Rimini, 1994, pp. 139-43, figs. 1 and 2). The present drawing, however, does not relate to that painting, nor does it relate to a fresco, also of a Last Judgement, in the apse of Ferrara Cathedral which is Bastianino's best-known work.

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