A kneeling garzone looking up to the left

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Federico Barocci (Urbino 1535-1612)
A kneeling garzone looking up to the left
studies of figures and the Visconti arms (verso) and with inscription 'Federico Barocci' on the detached mount
black and white chalk on blue paper
10 x 7¾ in. (252 x 195 mm.)

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Lot Essay

An early study for the picture of Beata Michelina commissioned in 1606 by Alessandro Barignani for the church of San Francesco in Pesaro and now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana (A. Emiliani, Federico Barocci, Bologna, 1985, II, p. 368, illustrated). The hat and coat lightly sketched in the drawing also appear, albeit in a different position, in the painting. A reversed study for the same figure, this time clearly female, is in the Uffizi (A. Emiliani, op. cit., fig. 816).

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