Lot 44: GUGLIELMO CORTESE Study for St. John the Baptist

GUGLIELMO CORTESE
Study for St. John the Baptist
Caharcoal on paper

It's a remarkable drawing attributable to Guglielmo Cortese during his greatest artistic maturity the same period as (citing an emblematic masterpiece) the alterpiece depicting the Madonna of the Rosary in the church St. George in Monteporzio Catone, when he was very close to Gian Lorenzo Bernini even artistically in the mid 60s of the 17th century.
The figure of high quality and refinement is depictedwith the artist's typical criterion of the image reclined in a smiling contemplation which was repeatedly shown in his works.
320 x 256 mm

320 x 256 mm

Caharcoal on paper