Lot 559: ATTRIBUTED TO DANIELE CRESPI

ATTRIBUTED TO DANIELE CRESPI BUSTO ARSIZIO CIRCA 1597 - 1630 MILAN THE HERMIT SAINTS PAUL AND ANTHONY Black chalk and gray and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue-green paper; bears inscription in brown ink, lower left: titiano 281 by 223 mm; 11 by 8 3/4 in

Franz Joseph Froehlich, Würzburg (L.1045a),
by whom left to the Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, University of Würzburg (bears mark, verso, not in Lugt);
Anton Schmid, Vienna (L.2330b)

The same subject is found in a drawing by Daniele Crespi in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan,υ1 which is a preparatory study for a section of the fresco under the semicatino in the apse, part of the vast and elaborate decoration executed by Daniele and assistants in the Certosa di Pavia.υ2

1. Cod. F. 65, inf. n. 55; see Nancy Ward Neilson, Daniele Crespi, Soncino 1996, p. 81, no. D.12, reproduced p. 222, 80 B
2. Ibid., p. 183, reproduced 54 L