Giuseppe Alvino, Il Sozzo (c. 1550-1611)

A Saint kneeling before an Altar with a Crucifix: Design for a Processional Banner

细节

Giuseppe Alvino, Il Sozzo (c. 1550-1611)
A Saint kneeling before an Altar with a Crucifix: Design for a Processional Banner
with inscriptions 'Charitas' and in the compartments 'miraculo della calcara', 'gillo del cardinale coloseo' and 'Gioseppe Socio palermita[n]o' (recto) and 'Giuseppe Sosio Palermitano' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, purple wash, watermark crowned orb
404 x 223 mm.

来源

An unidentified collector's drystamp, coat-of-arms (not in Lugt).

拍品专文

Two drawings by this Sicilian artist are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Palermo, Palazzo Abatellis, Maestri del Disegno nelle collezioni di Palazzo Abatellis, 1995, nos. 50-1. A picture of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, dated 1596 and similar in composition to the present drawing is in Collesano, Sicily (fig. 1). It displays the same decorative frieze at the bottom with two smaller compositions flanked by a central coat-of-arms.