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Lot Essay
Giovanni da Udine collaborated with Raphael on the Psyche Loggia at the Villa Farnesina and in the Vatican Logge, specialising in grotesche often populated with birds. While no drawings can be securely associated with the birds in the frescoes, a study of Finches in the Uffizi (inv. no. 461S), apparently by the same hand as the present lot, bears a 16th Century inscription '[V]anni deudine'.
Comparable drawings of birds and animals associated with Giovanni da Udine include a Cock pheasant in the British Museum (P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Italian Drawings in the British Museum, Raphael and his Circle, London, 1962, no. 153), a Woodpecker in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (P. Bjurström, Dessins du Nationalmuseum de Stockholm, exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, and elsewhere, 1970-71, no. 11) and A lapwing and a teal sold Sotheby's, London, 21 October 1963, lot 86.
Comparable drawings of birds and animals associated with Giovanni da Udine include a Cock pheasant in the British Museum (P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Italian Drawings in the British Museum, Raphael and his Circle, London, 1962, no. 153), a Woodpecker in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (P. Bjurström, Dessins du Nationalmuseum de Stockholm, exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, and elsewhere, 1970-71, no. 11) and A lapwing and a teal sold Sotheby's, London, 21 October 1963, lot 86.