Two draped figures, one gesturing to the right

Details

Vincenzo Tamagni da San Gimignano (1492-circa 1530)
Two draped figures, one gesturing to the right
pen and brown ink
140 x 83 mm.

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (L. 2092).
Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (L. 58).
Holtkott, their mark (not in Lugt).

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Lot Essay

Other drawings by Tamagni are illustrated in A.E. Popham, 'Some drawings by Vincenzo Tamagni', Old Master Drawings, September-March 1939, XIV, pls. 41-3 and in B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine painters, Chicago, 1938, figs. 363-9. Another drawing close in handling to the present one is at Christ Church, Oxford, J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, no. 324, pl. 202.
David Rust kindly confirmed the attribution on the basis of a photograph.

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