FRANCESCO VANNI (1563-1610)

THE RISEN CHRIST SURROUNDED BY ANGELS APPEARING TO TWO SAINTS

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FRANCESCO VANNI (1563-1610)
THE RISEN CHRIST SURROUNDED BY ANGELS APPEARING TO TWO SAINTS
NUMBERED ON THE MOUNT (?)
INSCRIBED WITH AN ILLEGIBLE CONTRACT (VERSO LAID DOWN)
OIL ON PAPER, MADE UP EDGES
347 X 211 MM

Provenance

F. BALDINUCCI, HIS MOUNT AND HIS ATTRIBUTION 'F. VANNI'.
FROM AN 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH COLLECTION 'HO...' ACCORDING TO AN INSCRIPTION ON THE MOUNT (VERSO).

Literature

P.A. RIEDL, 'FRANCESCO VANNI ALS ZEICHNER', MNCHNER JAHRBUCH DER BILDENDEN KUNST, 1979, XXX, PP. 94, 104.
J. POPE-HENNESSY, LEARNING TO LOOK, NEW YORK, 1991, P. 315.
S. FOLDS MCCULLAGH AND L.M. GILES, ITALIAN DRAWINGS BEFORE 1600 IN THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, 1997, UNDER NO. 246.

Lot Essay

THIS IS AN OIL SKETCH FOR VANNI'S ALTARPIECE IN THE CHURCH OF SAN BENEDETTO, FABRIANO, SIGNED AND DATED 1607, D. MERLONI, LA MONUMENTALE CHIESA DI S. BENEDETTO. LA CRIPTA DEL B. GIOVANNI DEL BASTONE. L'ORATORIO DEL GONFALONE, FABRIANO, P. 13, ILLUSTRATED. OTHER VERSIONS ARE IN THE LOUVRE (F. VIATTE, DESSINS TOSCANS XVIE-XVIIIE SIèCLES, I, 1560-1640, PARIS, 1988, NO. 529, ILLUSTRATED), AND IN THE CHIGI-SARACINI COLLECTION IN SIENA.
A STUDY FOR THE KNEELING FEMALE SAINT IS IN THE BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA, MILAN, AND A DRAWING WITH STUDIES RELATED TO THE ANGEL IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER AND THE FIGURE OF THE KNEELING BENEDICTINE SAINT SILVESTRO GOZZALINI IN THE RIGHT FOREGROUND IS IN THE ART INSTITUTE, CHICAGO, S. FOLDS MCCULLAGH AND L.M. GILES, OP. CIT., P. 246.

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