Lot Essay
The present drawing is a design for the wall decoration behind an altarpiece in a chapel. Several drawings by Perino for similar projects survive: one, which was designed to surround a small fresco by Giotto, is in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (E. Parma Armani, Perin del Vaga, L'anello mancante, Genoa, 1986, no. C.IX, fig. 355), and two further sheets are in the British Museum, P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Raphael and his Circle, London, 1962, nos. 156 and 168, pls. 122 and 136-7.
The drawing is similar in handling and figure type to a study for an altarpiece sold at Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 7, illustrated.
The drawing is similar in handling and figure type to a study for an altarpiece sold at Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 7, illustrated.