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Lot Essay
Related, with differences, to Carpaccio's polyptych panel in the Cathedral at Zara, J. Lauts, Carpaccio, Paintings and Drawings, London, 1962, no. 89, pl. 77.
Professor W.R. Rearick, in a letter dated 7 November 2001, associates the scratchy handling of the present drawing with drawings by Carpaccio in the Museo Civico, Bassano, at Chatsworth, and at the Louvre, H. Tietze and H. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters, New York, 1994, nos. 586, 591 and 631. Professor Rearick also notes that the Zara altarpiece, and by extension the present drawing, can be dated to 1493 on the basis of an unpublished sheet which combines studies for both the Saint Jerome at Zara and the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula in the Accademia, Venice, which was painted that year.
Professor Rearick intends to publish this and the Bodmer drawing as autograph in his forthcoming book on Carpaccio.
Professor W.R. Rearick, in a letter dated 7 November 2001, associates the scratchy handling of the present drawing with drawings by Carpaccio in the Museo Civico, Bassano, at Chatsworth, and at the Louvre, H. Tietze and H. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters, New York, 1994, nos. 586, 591 and 631. Professor Rearick also notes that the Zara altarpiece, and by extension the present drawing, can be dated to 1493 on the basis of an unpublished sheet which combines studies for both the Saint Jerome at Zara and the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula in the Accademia, Venice, which was painted that year.
Professor Rearick intends to publish this and the Bodmer drawing as autograph in his forthcoming book on Carpaccio.