A young woman kneeling at an altar rescued from sin

Details

Alessandro Maganza (Vicenza 1556-after 1630)
A young woman kneeling at an altar rescued from sin
black chalk, pen and brown ink
6 x 8 ¼ in. (15.4 x 21 cm)

Provenance

From an album formerly belonging to Sir Archibald Alison, Glasgow, sold to
Luigi Grassi, Florence and probably dismembered by him.
with Kurt Meissner, Zurich, 1957, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

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Lot Essay

A double-sided study, also from the collection of Luigi Grassi, executed in the same technique and showing a closely related composition is in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 24032; see V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Generalverzeichnis, IV, Vienna, 1997, pp. 2313-2314, ill.). The attribution to Maganza of that sheet, along with another drawing by the same hand in the Albertina, was first discussed by Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat (The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, New York, 1944, I, p. 292, under no. A 1754 and A 1757, pl. CC). Those drawings, and probably also the present one, come from a group of seventeen drawings by the same hand that Frits Lugt bought from Luigi Grassi and which were later dispersed (see J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1983, II, p. 263, note 2). Lugt retained several sheets in his own collection (ibid., nos. 252-257).

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