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Lot 19
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Paris Nogari

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Paris Nogari
  • Ecce homo
  • Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, heightened with white, indented and squared for transfer in black chalk, on paper washed golden brown, within brown ink framing lines;
    bears illegible inscription in black lead, lower right: del... and numbered in brown ink, verso: N. 35

Provenance

Comte Saint Germain, or Artaria & Co (L.2347)

Condition

Framed. Laid down, in 18th century? as with old shelf numbering on reverse. The ink has sunk in parts, which has caused areas of the paper to crack and split (also due to the incising)- stablised by being laid down. Some losses therefore to the surface, particularly at right side.
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Catalogue Note

Paris Nogari, one of the most interesting personalities active in Rome at the end of the sixteenth century, was involved in many of the city's important fresco decorations, starting with the Logge of Gregory XIII and the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in the Vatican.  Like many young artists of talent under the pontificate of Sixtus V (1585-90), he participated in the vast decorative projects of the Vatican Library, the Lateran, and the Scala Santa.  Parallels have been suggested between this depiction of an Ecce Homo and the 1586 engraving by Diana Scultori after Raffaellino da Reggio (B. XV, p. 435, 6).  Raffaellino, to whom the present sheet was previously attributed by Lawrence Turčic, exerted a certain infuence on Nogari's style,1 and both artists, whilst retaining their personalities, are very much indebted to Taddeo Zuccaro. 

According to Baglione, Nogari made a number of small devotional paintings, and this sheet is perhaps preparatory either for a small copper or for an engraving. 

1. See J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Artists working in Rome c.1550 - c. 1640, London 1983, p. 136