Studio of Perino del Vaga, Il Buonacorsi (1501-1547)

Details

Studio of Perino del Vaga, Il Buonacorsi (1501-1547)

Studies of two Caryatids flanking a Harp (recto);
Figure Studies (verso)

with inscriptions 'P. del Vaga' (recto) and 'Perrin' (verso); pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized)
6 1/8 x 5in. (155 x 127mm.)

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (L. 2092).
John Talman, part of his characteristic mount.
John Barnard (L. 1419).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364).
M. Goldstein, according to a note on the mount.

Literature

K. Oberhuber, Observations on Perino del Vaga, Master Drawings, IV, 1966, p. 173, note 35, pl. 39.

Exhibited

Duke University, 1966, no. 5.

Lot Essay

Bernice Davidson connected the present sheet to the figures separating two framed compositions in a frieze in the Sala dei Ricevimenti of the Palazzo Massimo, Rome, which was decorated under the direction of Perino, Oberhuber, op. cit., figs. 2 and 3. In his review of the Perino del Vaga exhibition, organized by Bernice Davidson, at the Uffizi in 1966, Oberhuber tentatively attributes this drawing to Perino's assistant Luzio Romano.