Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666)

The Birth of the Virgin

细节

Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666)
The Birth of the Virgin
extensively inscribed (verso, laid down)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, the lower right corner missing
130 x 197 mm.

来源

Commendatore Vittorio Genevosio (L. 545), his mount and attribution 'Guercine' (?).

拍品专文

Nicholas Turner has confirmed the attribution to Mola, and notes that the sheet is connected to a composition planned by the artist towards the end of his career but never executed. A more complete compositional study was sold at Sotheby's London, 2 July 1984, lot 91, while a study for a group of midwives around a brazier, possibly destined for the foreground, was sold at Sotheby's London, 4 July 1988, lot 115.