Lot Essay
Possibly connected with decoration of the church of Saint Dionysus at Cassano d'Adda near Milan. Another drawing of Saint Dionysus is in the Accademia, Venice, G. Bora, op. cit., no. 134.
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The funeral mass of Saint Dionysus
Details
Giovanni Battista della Rovere, il Fiammenghino (1561-1627)
The funeral mass of Saint Dionysus
with inscription
'Gio: Batta della Rovere nato in Milano detto il Fiammenghino scolo. di Camillo e Giulo. Cesare Procaccini fece nel 1618.' on the mount
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash heightened with white on blue paper
238 x 327 mm.
The funeral mass of Saint Dionysus
with inscription
'Gio: Batt
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash heightened with white on blue paper
238 x 327 mm.
Provenance
Cesare Frigerio, his mark (not in Lugt).
with R.P. Hartmann, Munich, c. 1968.
Herbert List, his mark (not in Lugt).
Stiftung Ratjen, no. 244.
with R.P. Hartmann, Munich, c. 1968.
Herbert List, his mark (not in Lugt).
Stiftung Ratjen, no. 244.
Literature
U. Ruggeri, 'Note sui Fiammenghini e su Cesare Nebbia', Arte Lombarda, XIV, 1969, p. 125, fig. 9.
J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1983, under no. 399.
A. Moir et al., Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner, exhib. cat., Santa Barbara, 1986, under no. 38.
J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1983, under no. 399.
A. Moir et al., Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner, exhib. cat., Santa Barbara, 1986, under no. 38.
Exhibited
Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and elsewhere, Italienische Zeitung des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts, 1977, no. 18.