Lot 302: LORENZO DE FERRARI

GENOA 1680 - 1744 A STUDY OF ST. STANISLAUS KOSTKA HOLDING THE CHRIST CHILD, AND A SEPARATE STUDY OF HIS HEAD Black chalk, the sheet made up at upper margin and lower right corner; bears numbering in black chalk, lower centre: 33 395 by 251 mm

William Bates (L.2604); sale, London, Phillips, 23 June 1987, lot 185 (as Venetian School, 18th Century), purchased by Ralph Holland

This large impressive sheet depicting a saint holding the Christ Child is perhaps a study for St. Stanislaus Kostka in Lorenzo de Ferrari's painting The Virgin with Saints Stanislaus Kostka and Francesco Borgia, for the cathedral of S. Lorenzo, Genoa.1 Another drawing by Lorenzo de Ferrari of a Kneeling Jesuit may be a study for the same Saint.2 We are grateful to Mary Newcome Schleier for endorsing the attribution to Lorenzo de Ferrari. 1. E. Gavazza, Lorenzo de Ferrari 1680-1744, Milan 1965, p. 146, no. 82, reproduced no. 82 2. Sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 May 1985, lot 127