Lot 15: Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo (Ferrara circa 1476-1559)

A bishop seated on a throne, with two standing figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash in an inscribed arch
7 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. (182 x 118 mm.)

A. Neppi, 'Un disegno inedito del Garofalo', Pantheon, September - October 1966, pp. 320-1.
R. Varese, in Cultura figurativa ferrarese tra XV e XVI secolo, Venice, 1981, p. 92.
A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo, Rimini, 1993, p. 269, no. D3.

A. Grahl (L. 1199).
Benno Geiger; Sotheby's, London, 7-10 December 1920, lot 127.
Bargellesi Collection, Genoa.
With Alistair Matthews, Bournemouth, 1972.

Very close in handling to a pen drawing of the Adoration of the Magi, in a private collection, which is a study for a picture dated 1549 in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Ferrara (A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, op. cit., nos. 19 [drawing] and 189 [painting]). Also close in morphology, with egg-shaped heads delineated by a sequence of lines and features defined with dots, are drawings in the British Museum (A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, op. cit., no. 18) and in the Janos Scholz Collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (P. Pouncey, 'Drawings by Garofalo', The Burlington Magazine, XCVII, 1955, pp. 196-202, fig. 15).