4 Figure Studies^Black and white chalk, beige chalk on right knee, stylus
indentations on blue paper (recto); black and white chalk
(verso); H: 30. 1 cm (nI3/i6in.); W: 27.2 cm (io:i/i6in.)
83.06.27 9
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS! None.
PROVENANCE: Theodore A. Heinrich (sale, Christie's,
London, July 6, 1982, lot 134); art market, London.
EXHIBITIONS: Old Master Draw ings, Colnaghi, London,
June-July 1983, no. 6.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Emiliani, Federico Barocci (Urbino
1535-1612) (Bologna, 1985), vol. 2, p. 381.THE RECTO IS A STUDY FOR THE SERVANT AT THE LEFT
front of the Institution of the Eucharist (Rome, Santa Maria
sopra Minerva), which was painted by Barocci between
1603 and 1607. This figure does not appear in the first
known version of the composition, a drawing in Chats-
worth (inv. 361), but is included with very few changes
in the definitive compositional drawing, now in an En-
glish private collection. The rich technique of free draw-
ing employed for this study may be found in other prepa-
ratory studies for details of this altarpiece, including one
for the legs of the same servant in the Kupferstichkabi-
nett, Berlin (inv. 4283; Emiliani 1985, vol. 2, p. 385, fig.
847). The drawing on the verso—-which was the only
side known before the sheet's removal from its old mount
following the 1982 auction—is certainly related to the
same figure in the painting, though it shows the servant
facing in the opposite direction. Perhaps it was made at
a moment when Barocci was contemplating the place-
ment of this figure at the right side of the composition.verso26 ITALIAN SCHOOL • BAROCCI