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Follower of Giovanni Antonio Licinio, Il Pordenone (Pordenone circa 1484-1539 Ferrara)

Saint Augustine seated

Details

Follower of Giovanni Antonio Licinio, Il Pordenone (Pordenone circa 1484-1539 Ferrara)
Saint Augustine seated
pen and brown ink, point of the brush and brown wash heightened with white, on grey (formerly blue) paper
9 3/8 x 7 5/8 in. (24 x 19.3 cm)

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Jun. (1664-1771), London (L. 2170) (on associated mount and with his inscription ‘Nella chiesa di S.ta Maria di Campagna, à Piacenza, entrando á man si:/ nistra, dipinse il Pordonone La tavola di Sant’Agostino. Vasari vit. p. 191/ Di età di 56 mori 1540. Ridolfi.’, verso of the old mount).
Henry Constantine Jennings (1731-1819), Shiplake and London (L. 2771).
William Mayor (d. 1874), London (L. 2799).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett; Norbert Ketterer, 19-21 May 1953, lot 490, where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Exhibited

A Brief Chronological Description of a Collection of Original Drawings and Sketches by the Old Masters of the different Schools of Europe […] formed by the late Mr. William Mayor of Bayswater Hill, London, 1875, no. 230.

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Lot Essay

The figure in this drawing shows the same figure in reverse as that in the now almost entirely destroyed fresco by Pordenone (in collaboration with his son-in-law, Pomponio Amalteo (1505-1588) in the Church of Santa Croce, Casarsa (C.E. Cohen, The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone. Between Dialect and Language, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, fig. 681). Five further copies after the frescoes are known (ibid., p. 725, under no. 1).

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