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Lot Essay
A study for the figure standing at the left of the Searching of the Sacks from the Story from the Life of Joseph in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, L. Nikolenko, Francesco Ubertini, called il Bacchiacca, New York, 1966, p. 39, fig. 13. The four vertical panels in the Galleria Borghese, along with two in the National Gallery, London, were painted for Pier Francesco Borgherini in Florence between 1515 and 1523. These were described by Giorgio Vasari in his life of Bacchiacca: 'For the chamber of Pier Francesco Borgherini, of which mention has already been made so many times, Il Bacchiacca, in company with the others, executed many little figures on the coffers and the panelling, which are known by the manner, being different from the others', Lives of the most eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, London, 1996, p. 444. The 'others' mentioned by Vasari were Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo and Francesco Granacci.
Bernard Berenson mentions a number of drawings of single figures and cartoons connected to that commission, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago and London, 1970, nos. 181 (fig. 931, Uffizi, 350F, for the figure of Judah in the National Gallery), 182 (Uffizi 350bisF, for one of the pictures in Rome), 185 (Christ Church, cartoon for one of the London pictures, J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, no. 116, pl. 51), 186-7 (Louvre, 187 is fig. 934, cartoons for the London pictures), 188 (Louvre, cartoon for the Borghese picture to which this drawing is related), 189 (Albertina, Vienna, two drawings for the London picture, V. Birke and J. Kertsz, Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1992, Inv. 152-3). To this should be added a drawing in the Uffizi for one of the London pictures (20957F).
Another drawing similar to the present one, but apparently not connected to the Story of Joseph pictures, is in the Uffizi, B. Berenson, op. cit., 182a, fig. 930.
Bernard Berenson mentions a number of drawings of single figures and cartoons connected to that commission, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago and London, 1970, nos. 181 (fig. 931, Uffizi, 350F, for the figure of Judah in the National Gallery), 182 (Uffizi 350bisF, for one of the pictures in Rome), 185 (Christ Church, cartoon for one of the London pictures, J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, no. 116, pl. 51), 186-7 (Louvre, 187 is fig. 934, cartoons for the London pictures), 188 (Louvre, cartoon for the Borghese picture to which this drawing is related), 189 (Albertina, Vienna, two drawings for the London picture, V. Birke and J. Kertsz, Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1992, Inv. 152-3). To this should be added a drawing in the Uffizi for one of the London pictures (20957F).
Another drawing similar to the present one, but apparently not connected to the Story of Joseph pictures, is in the Uffizi, B. Berenson, op. cit., 182a, fig. 930.