Lot 50
50
Baldassare Francheschini, Il Volterrano (1611-1689)

Details
Baldassare Francheschini, Il Volterrano (1611-1689)

Studies of a Nude seen from behind, half-length (recto); Study of the Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist, for a hexagonal composition, and Christ crowned with Thorns, in an oval frame (verso)

red, black, and white chalk (recto), black chalk (verso), on gray paper
14¼ x 10in. (362 x 254mm.)
Provenance
With H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1966, no. 24, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Comparable with drawings sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1980, lots 16, 46 and 54, illustrated, and with others in the Louvre, F. Viatte and C. Monbeig-Goguel, Dessins baroques florentins du Musée du Louvre, exhib. cat., Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 109, illustrated.