Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Il Sodoma (Vercelli 1477-1549 Siena)
Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Il Sodoma (Vercelli 1477-1549 Siena)

A veiled woman looking to the left

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Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Il Sodoma (Vercelli 1477-1549 Siena)
A veiled woman looking to the left
with number ‘24’
black chalk with stumping, on faded blue paper, indented with the stylus, upper right corner made up
10 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (27 x 21.1 cm)
Provenance
Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994).
A European private collection.

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Lot Essay

This may be a study for Sodoma's fresco The ecstasy and swooning of Saint Catherine of Siena, which he painted in San Domenico in Siena around 1526 (see A. Hayum, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, ‘Il Sodoma’, New York and London, 1976, p. 196, no. 25, ill.).

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