Alessandro Tiarini (1577-1668)
Alessandro Tiarini (1577-1668)

The Madonna and Child with a Carthusian monk

Details
Alessandro Tiarini (1577-1668)
Tiarini, A.
The Madonna and Child with a Carthusian monk
black chalk over stylus indications on light blue paper
7.7/8 x 7.3/8 in. (199 x 187 mm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 10 January 1990, lot 44A.

Lot Essay

A study with only minor differences for the picture in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna (photograph in the Witt Library, London). A drawing similar in handling is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, K.T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1956, no. 696 (as Schidone, corrected to Tiarini in H. Macandrew, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, Italian Schools: Supplement, Oxford, 1980, III, no. 696).
A small group of drawings by Tiarini is in the Weld-Blundell collection in Liverpool, X. Brooke, Mantegna to Rubens, exhib. cat., The British Museum, London and elsewhere, 1998, pp. 199-200, illustrated.