Andrea Meldolla, lo Schiavone (active 1527-1563)

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Andrea Meldolla, lo Schiavone (active 1527-1563)

The Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Anne and an Angel

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), on brown preparation
267 x 204mm.
Provenance
J. Richardson Sen. (L. 2169)

Lot Essay

The Entombment of Christ in the Victoria and Albert Museum is comparable both in style and technique to that of the present sheet, P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings Volume One: 14th-16th Century, London, 1979, no. 315, illustrated. The Victoria and Albert drawing is dated by Francis Richardson to about 1550, F. Richardson, Andrea Schiavone, Oxford, 1980, no. 175

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