Lot Essay
A study for the hand and breast for the Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Anne in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Perugia, Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, Torino, 1972, III, p. 260, fig. 239. The verso is for Saint John the Baptist in the same picture.
According to Richard Krautheimer, this drawing comes from an album, formerly in the Albertina in Vienna, that contained drawings mostly by Bolognese artists. The album was sold after the First World War, in connection with a settlement between the Albertina and Archduke Frederick, and was later broken up. A number of drawings were bought by Janos Scholz in the 1950s, A. Moir et al., Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of Janos Scholz, exhib. cat., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974, no. 13, 41-2, illustrated.
According to Richard Krautheimer, this drawing comes from an album, formerly in the Albertina in Vienna, that contained drawings mostly by Bolognese artists. The album was sold after the First World War, in connection with a settlement between the Albertina and Archduke Frederick, and was later broken up. A number of drawings were bought by Janos Scholz in the 1950s, A. Moir et al., Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of Janos Scholz, exhib. cat., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974, no. 13, 41-2, illustrated.