European Drawings - 1, Catalogue of the Collections

(^32) The Deaths of the Blessed

Ugocdone and Sostegno

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A Study of the Farnese

Hercules (by another hand

[Giovanni Navarretti?])

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Black chalk, brush and brown ink, brown wash, and

white gouache heightening on blue-green paper, squared

in red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso); H: 27.6

cm (io^7 /s in.); W: 41.7 cm (i6^7 /i6in.)

85.00.223

MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at top left and bot-

tom center, inscribed Poccetti in brown ink by a later

hand; (verso) inscribed Di Gio Navarretti (the Tuscan

sixteenth-century painter?) in brown ink; Bernardino

Pocce in black ink.

PROVENANCE: Baron Horace de Landau, Paris and Flor-

ence; Mme Hugo Finaly, Florence; Tor Engestroem,

Stockholm; sale, Christie's, London, July 5, 1983, lot 54;

art market, London.

EXHIBITIONS: None.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. Vitzthum, Die Handzeichnungen des

Bernardino Poccetti (Berlin, 1972), p. 75; P. Hamilton,

Disegnidi Bernardino Poccetti, exh. cat., Gabinetto Disegni

e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1980, pp. 81, 83.

BETWEEN 1604 AND 1612 POCCETTI PAINTED A SERIES

of fourteen frescoes with scenes from the lives of the

founders of the monastery of Monte Senario, who be-

longed to the Servite order. The Museum's drawing,

though quite elaborate and seemingly definitive (being

squared), was superseded by a sheet in the Uffizi (inv.

85 IF; Hamilton 1980, no. 68), which differs from it in

several details. The rather broad and deep spatial arrange-

ment and the rhythmic character of the composition ap-

pear to owe a great deal to the example of High Renais-

sance painting, especially the work of Andrea del Sarto.^1

i. Other drawings for the fresco are listed by Hamilton (1980,

p. 81).

verso

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