The Apotheosis of Saint Carlo

Details

After Giulio Cesare Procaccini
The Apotheosis of Saint Carlo
black chalk on paper
15 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. (390 x 252 mm.), unframed

Provenance

Cavaliere Gelosi (?) (L. 513).
J.-M. Dupan (L. 1440).
with Alister Mathews, Bournemouth.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968.

Exhibited

Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Drawings from Four Collections, 1973.
Milwaukee, Art History Museum, Green Hall, University of Wisconsin, Drawings from the Jackie and Jerrold Ziff Collection, 1977.
Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, The Ziff Collection of Old Master and Nineteenth Century Drawings, 1999, no. 14.

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Lot Essay

After Procaccini's altarpiece of the same subject now in the Brera Pinacoteca, Milan (M. Rosci, Giulio Cesare, Soncino, 1993, pp. 82-3, fig. 12). Carlo is the patron saint of Milan. The painting was commissioned around 1620 by Cattaneo Adorno for the chapel dedicated to the saint in the church of S. Francesco d'Albaro in Milan.

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