Lot 41: PIETRO NOVELLI, CALLED IL MONREALESE

MONREALE 1603 - 1647 PALERMO THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN WITH TWO DOMINICAN SAINTS Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk 335 by 230 mm

Another drawn version of the same composition is in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palermo.1 It has not been possible to connect these drawings to any surviving work by Novelli but similarities have been pointed out with his Coronation of the Virgin, for the Oratorio del Rosario, Palermo, of circa 1630. 1. Inv. vol. 1565/3; Pietro Novelli e il suo ambiente, exhib. cat., Palermo, Albergo dei Poveri, 1990, p. 432, no. III.85, reproduced