Lot Essay
A newly identified study for the seated figure second from the right in the foreground of the picture at Berlin depicting Saint Stephen and his six companions ordained deacons by Saint Peter in the Saint Stephen cycle painted for the Scuola di San Stefano in Venice in 1511, J. Lauts, Carpaccio, Paintings and Drawings, London, 1962, no. 26, pl. 160. Jan Lauts records other drawings related to the same picture in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, in the University Art Museum, Princeton, in the Uffizi, Florence, and in the Louvre, Paris, op. cit., Cat. of Drawings nos. 3, 46r, 14 and 42, pls. 164, 119, 121 and 116.
Two other pictures from the cycle of five, The Sermon of Saint Stephen and The Disputation of Saint Stephen, respectively in the Louvre and in the Brera, Milan, are dated 1514. The last picture, The Stoning of Saint Stephen of 1520, is at Stuttgart, while The Trial of Saint Stephen is lost.
Two other pictures from the cycle of five, The Sermon of Saint Stephen and The Disputation of Saint Stephen, respectively in the Louvre and in the Brera, Milan, are dated 1514. The last picture, The Stoning of Saint Stephen of 1520, is at Stuttgart, while The Trial of Saint Stephen is lost.