Lot 61: * BERNARDINO BARBATELLI, CALLED IL POCCETTI FLORENCE 1548 - 1612

STUDY OF THE HEADS OF TWO MEN, IN PROFILE TO THE RIGHT

measurements note
96 by 125mm; 3 11/16 by 5in

red chalk heightened with white chalk

PROVENANCE

Teodor de Wyzewa (L.2471, twice, with numbering in brown ink: N^o 131I);
bears unidentified collector's mark, recto (similar to L.1861);
Michel Gaud, his sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 20 June 1987, lot 92;
with Adolphe Stein, Paris

NOTE

These heads are close to those of two figures in a fresco by Poccetti, The Martyrdom of Saint Peter. This was commissioned for the cloister of SS. Annunziata, Florence, and, now detached, is in the Gallerie Fiorentine, Florence, on deposit at the Villa Corsini, Castello (see Il Seicento Fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exhibition catalogue, Florence 1986-87, cat. no. 1.9, pp. 96-97).