Lot 389: AURELIO LOMI

PISA 1556 - 1622 ST. SEBASTIAN BEFORE THE TYRANT Pen and brown ink and wash, squared in black chalk; a black chalk tracing of some of the figures, verso; bears inscription in pen and brown ink, verso: Aurelio lomi 335 by 245 mm

L. Turi and M. Newcome, 'Drawings by Aurelio Lomi,' Paragone, vol. 42, no. 29 (499), September 1991, p. 39, no. 11, reproduced pl. 35

With Rich, London, from whom purchased, circa 1957

Lawrence Turi (loc. cit.) identified this as a preparatory study, with some differences, for Lomi's painting in the Pucci chapel of SS. Annunziata, Florence, which can be dated between 1607 and 1611.1 Carofano suggests that the placement of the Castel Sant'Angelo in the background of the painting might be a tribute to Cardinal Pucci, who died in Rome in 1607. 1. R.P. Ciardi, M.C. Galassi, P. Carofano, Aurelio Lomi, Pisa 1989, pp. 230-232, no. 50, reproduced color pl. LXXV