Lot 84: Ferraù Fenzoni , Faenza 1562 - 1645 the madonna and child borne aloft by putti Pen and brown ink with touches of white heightening (partly oxidised); bears old attribution on backing sheet: P. Veronese (Capo d'opera)

Pen and brown ink with touches of white heightening (partly oxidised); bears old attribution on backing sheet: P. Veronese (Capo d'opera)

measurements note 163 by 130 mm

Giuseppe Scavizzi and Nicolas Schwed, Ferraù Fenzoni, Todi 2006, pp. 328-9, D. 126, reproduced

Dr. F. Rinner (his mark, not in Lugt);
Vienna, Dorotheum, 4 October 2005, lot 41 (as Giovanni Battista Paggi)

This drawing is very typical of the artist's graphic style but appears not to be connected to any known work. Nicolas Schwed, in the entry on this sheet in his monograph on Fenzoni, writes that the corrections executed with white heightening visible on this drawing (see the pentimento on the angel at the bottom of the composition) with time create a slight haze and are quite frequent in pen studies datable to after 1614.