Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (c.1496-1528)

Saint Cecilia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalen and a Bishop Saint

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Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (c.1496-1528)
Saint Cecilia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalen and a Bishop Saint
with an erased inscription
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper
213 x 156 mm.

Provenance

Roger de Piles, according to an inscription 'Dessein Original de Raffael d'urbin- jadis du Cabinet de monsieur de Piles, ensuite au cabinet de monsieur de Provence Il a été Estimé par tel Par les Professeurs de l'academie Royale de Paris Etant la Pensée de la Celebre table de Ste cecile a Bologne ---------' on a label attached to the mount
Pierre Crozat, his number '29', Paris, 10 April-13 May 1741, lot 128.
Count Genovesino (L. 545).
Monsieur de Provence.

Literature

A. Schnapper, Curieux du Grand Siècle, Paris, 1994, p. 260.

Engraved

Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron.

Lot Essay

Closely related to a drawing by Giovanni Francesco Penni in the Petit Palais, Paris, which represents an early phase in the preparation of Raphael's Saint Cecilia altarpiece, painted in 1514, in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (E. Knab, E. Mitsch and K. Oberhuber, Raphael. Die Zeichnungen, Stuttgart, 1983, fig. 130). The drawing shows several differences to the painting which is also recorded in an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi. In the 18th Century the drawing was considered a capital drawing by Raphael.

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