TOMMASO MANZUOLI, DIT MASO DA SAN FRIANO (FLORENCE 1531-1571)
TOMMASO MANZUOLI, DIT MASO DA SAN FRIANO (FLORENCE 1531-1571)

Deux moines debout (recto et verso)

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TOMMASO MANZUOLI, DIT MASO DA SAN FRIANO (FLORENCE 1531-1571)

Deux moines debout (recto et verso)
plume et encre brune, lavis brun rehaussé de blanc sur papier préparé rose
16 x 22,5 cm. (6 ¼ x 8 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Giorgio dalla Bella (né en 1923), Venise (L. 3774).
Post lot text
TOMMASO MANZUOLI, CALLED MASO DA SAN FRIANO, TWO STANDING MONKS,
PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE ON PINK PREPARED PAPER
This double-sided sheet of figure studies is characteristic of the nervosity and exaggerated proportions of Maso da San Friano’s drawing style (for examples, see P. Costamagna, ‘Continuity and Innovation: The Art of Maso da San Friano’, in Continuity, Innovation, and Connoiseurship. Old Master Paintings at the Palmer Museum of Art, State College, Pennsylvania, 2003, pp. 38-61; and R. Eitel-Porter in Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries. Drawings from the Uffizi. The Role of Disegno in the Sixteenth-Century Decoration of Palazzo Vecchio, exhib. cat., New York, Morgan Library and Museum, 2008, nos. 56-59, ill.). A sheet from what must have been the same sketchbook was offered at the sale Dorotheum, Vienna, 29 April 1999, lot 107.

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Les études de figures sur cette feuille sont caractéristiques, tant par la nervosité du trait que par l’exagération des proportions, du style de Maso da San Friano (pour quelques exemples, voir P. Costamagna, ‘Continuity and Innovation: The Art of Maso da San Friano’, in Continuity, Innovation, and Connoiseurship. Old Master Paintings at the Palmer Museum of Art, State College, Pennsylvania, 2003, pp. 38-61; et R. Eitel-Porter in Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries. Drawings from the Uffizi. The Role of Disegno in the Sixteenth-Century Decoration of Palazzo Vecchio, cat. exp., New York, Morgan Library and Museum, 2008, nos. 56-59, ill.). Une feuille appartenant probablement au même carnet de croquis est passée en vente chez Dorotheum, Vienne, 29 avril 1999, lot 107.
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