Orazio Samacchini (1532-1577)

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Orazio Samacchini (1532-1577)

The Presentation in the Temple

pen and brown ink, brown wash, two putti traced in black chalk on the verso, three corners made up
281 x 189mm.

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A preparatory drawing for the altarpiece in the Cappella Magnani in San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna of circa 1575. Related drawings are in the Detroit Institute of Arts (G. Smith, A Drawing by Orazio Samacchini for his 'Presentation in the Temple' in San Giacome Maggiore, Master Drawings, XIII, 1975, pl. 21) and in the Louvre, F. Pierantonio, in Pittura Bolognese del '500, Bologna, 1986, II, illustrated p. 673

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