Giovanni de'Vecchi (circa 1537-1615)

细节
Giovanni de'Vecchi (circa 1537-1615)

The Assumption of the Virgin: Design for a Ceiling

with inscriptions 'Bat. Franco' (recto) and 'Del Primaticio' (verso);pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), squared in red chalk, the figures of the Virgin and the three foreground apostles are on separate pieces of paper, quatrefoil, minor made up areas
345 x 277mm.

拍品专文

The facial types and the thin, nervous line are paralleled in drawings such as The Madonna of Loreto with Saints and Donors in the Uffizi (no. 7363), Saint John the Evangelist in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Bean, 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no. 266, illustrated) and The Virgin and Child with Saint Lucy in the British Museum, J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Artists working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, London, 1983, I, no. 282, II, pl. 269