Avanzino Nucci (1551-1629)

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Avanzino Nucci (1551-1629)

A Design for an Altarpiece: The Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Bartholomew (?), with Christ supported by God the Father, with two angels flanked by pendentives of an Annunciation

with inscriptions 'Io Ferranta Degeol Io .oann Benardo de Lampo Hoc Angelo d.posa lo sub s lepul lapis de bolua... Juputia ...Ferra... dela Sama' (verso, laid down) and 'Rafaello ptrimo stile' (crossed out), 'fra Bartolomeo del Marco' on the mount;black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized) on blue paper, arched, some losses, slight ink gall damages, irregular

380 x 280mm.

Provenance

A. Tardieu (L. 183b).
Nicos Dhikeos (his mark, not in Lugt).

Lot Essay

The technique of the present drawing is comparable with that of a modello for an altarpiece in the Uffizi, Florence, P. Pouncey, A 'Bozzetto' by Roncalli for his Altar-piece in Saint Peter's, Burlington Magazine, 1977, CXIX, p. 225, fig. 110.

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