Lot 23: Andrea Boscoli (1560-1607)

Two studies of an ‚corch‚ figure, after Francavilla with inscription 'Michael angelo Buonaroti' black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on brown paper, on a fragmentary 17th Century mount 16 x 9 3/8 in. (408 x 236 mm.) PROVENANCE A. Marquet de Vasselot (L. 2499). An unidentified collector's mark, an encircled coat of arms. NOTES This is a study from two different angles taken from a remarkable bronze statuette of an ‚corch‚ attributed to Pietro Francavilla (1547-1615), a cast of which is at the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow (C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, Giambologna, sculptor to the Medici, exhib. cat., Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum and elsewhere, 1978, no. 194). The statuette is one of there different treatments of the ‚corch‚ figure in the Jagiellonian library, C. Avery, op. cit., nos. 192-4. The finest, and largest, of these Charles Avery is inclined to date to 1576 or earlier. The Uffizi has a number of such anatomical studies executed by Boscoli, all of which are of a similar size and technique to the present sheet (8227F, 8228F, 8230F, 8234F, 8235F, A. Forlani, Mostra di disegni di Andrea Boscoli, exhib. cat., Florence, Uffizi, 1959, no. 63).