Lot 28
28
Belisario Corenzio (Naples active 1590-1646)
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Belisario Corenzio (Naples active 1590-1646)

Saint John the Baptist preaching before Herod

Details
Belisario Corenzio (Naples active 1590-1646)
Saint John the Baptist preaching before Herod
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on blue paper
4¼ x 12¼ in. (109 x 311 mm.)
Provenance
An 18th Century collector's mount with inscriptions 'Di Andrea del Sarto' and '6'.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The strips of coloured paper laid down along the margins of the drawing are typical of Italian 17th and 18th Century mounts. A number of drawings with similar green strips and inscriptions by the same hand are in the Uffizi (Il Seicento Fiorentino, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1986, nos. 2.160, 2.237 and 2.329) and sold at Christie's, New York, 21 January 2001, lot 45.

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