The Marriage of the Virgin

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AVANZINO NUCCI (GUALDO TADINO 1551-1629 ROME)
The Marriage of the Virgin
with inscriptions 'Avanzino' (lower centre) and 'Pomerancio' (lower right)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
24.8 x 17 cm (9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 2000, lot 14 (as attributed to Niccolo Circignani, Il Pomarancio).
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London (An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 2001, no. 8, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Literature

M. Guillaume, Catalogue des dessins italiens. Collections du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon, 2004, p. 146, under no. 255.

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Lot Essay

Although it cannot be related to any of his few known paintings, the present sheet is a characteristic drawing by Avanzino Nucci, an artist identified by Philip Pouncey, who first grouped his drawings under the name of the ‘pseudo-Bernardo Castello’.

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