Lot 43
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Provenance
1st Earl of Leicester, his mount with the attribution 'Mola' in William Kent's (?) hand
Literature
A.E. Popham and C.E. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings at Holkham Hall, Chicago, 1986, no. 188
Exhibited
London, Arts Council, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of the Earl of Leicester, 1948, no. 23
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., Old Master Drawings from Holkham, 1977, no. 36, illustrated
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Old Master Drawings from Holkham Hall, 1988
Rome, Museo Capitolino, Pier Francesco Mola, 1989, no. III.46, illustrated

Lot Essay

Nicholas Turner suggested that this drawing may have been inspired by paintings and drawings of Saint Cecilia by Guercino, which Mola might have known during his period in Bologna in the 1640s. Guercino's Saint Cecilia of the early 1640s in the Louvre (S. Loire, Le Guercin en France, 1990, no. 7, illustrated) is comparable in pose with the figure on the left of this drawing. A study by Guercino, probably for the Paris picture is at Windsor, D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989, no. 105. The recently revealed verso recalls Renaissance prototypes

The verso is illustrated at the end of the catalogue

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