Lot 27: Belisario Corenzio (c.1560-1643)

An assembly of the doctors of the Church: A section of a cupola inscribed 'COD TA' and with number '205' black chalk, brush and blue ink, blue wash heightened with white on brown paper 137/8 x 123/4 in. (353 x 323 mm.) PROVENANCE Anon. sale; Sotheby's London, 26 June 1969, lot 155. with Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London. with Elizabeth Drey, New York. with P. & D. Colnaghi, 1985. LITERATURE M. di Giampaolo, 'Balducci o Corenzio?, un ipotesi', Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskana, Munich, 1992, pp. 330-1, fig. 8. NOTES Comparable to a drawing by Corenzio in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, J. Bean and L. Turcic, 15th and 16th Century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no. 56.