Valerio Castello (1624-1659)

Christ and the Centurion: Design for a lunette

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Valerio Castello (1624-1659)
Christ and the Centurion: Design for a lunette

with inscription 'Valerio Castelli giovane nipote o figlio del Castelli vecchio Bernardo' in brown ink on the album page to which this drawing was formerly attached
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, squared and shaped into a lunette in red chalk
140 x 219 mm.

Provenance

N. Dhikeos (his stamp, not in Lugt).

Literature

M. Newcome Schleier, 'Other Drawings by Valerio Castello' in L'Arte del Disegno; Christel Thiem zum 3 Januar 1997, Berlin, 1997, p. 151, no. 12.

Lot Essay

A preparatory study for the Christ and the Centurion, one of five paintings of the Opere della Misericordia commissioned from Castello in circa 1646 by the P.P. Ministri degli Infirmi for the Sacristy of the Church of San Camillo e Santa Croce, Genoa, C. Manzitti, Valerio Castello, Genoa, 1972, pp. 144-145, no. 68. A comparable study for another painting of the Misericordia series, The Vision of Saint Camillo to Saint Filippo Neri, is in the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf, M. Newcome Schleier, 'The Drawings of Valerio Castello' in Master Drawings, 1975, XIII, p. 35, no. 4, pl. 9.

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