Lot 86: Domenico Fiasella , Sarzana 1589 - 1669 Genoa the beheading of saint john the baptist Red chalk; inscribed in brown ink, upper center: di sei, e m... 17 62

Red chalk; inscribed in brown ink, upper center: di sei, e m... 17 62

measurements note 316 by 233 mm

Only a small number of drawings have been given to Fiasella, but this previously anonymous sheet is typical of his style and compares well to a compositional drawing in red and black chalk in the Uffizi, representing Isaiah predicting the death of King Hezekiah.υ1 1. See Domenico Fiasella, exhibition catalogue, Genoa, Palazzo Reale 1990, cat. no. 49, pp. 216-7, fig. 140