The Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine

Details

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1662)
The Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on brown paper, laid down, small areas made up
200 x 145 mm.

Provenance

Padre Resta, his inscription 'Scuola del Fed. Zuccheri'.

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Lot Essay

The attribution was kindly confirmed by Dr. Merz, on the basis of a photograph, in a letter dated 8 May 2000. He places the drawing in the late 1630s comparing it with a sheet of the same date representing Pasce Oves at Chatsworth, M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Roman and Neapolitan Schools, London, 1994, no. 339.

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