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Ferrarese School, Early 16th Century
Description
- A priest celebrating mass
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk;
bears old attribution in brown ink, verso: a. del Sarto
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. (1792-1872);
by inhertance to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick (1856-1938);
sold from his estate to Lionel Robinson, Esq.;
thence by inheritance to the present owners
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The restrained, serene quality of this drawing and the use of brown wash heightened with delicate strokes of white heightening are reminiscent of the work of the Ferrarese artist Benevuto Tisi, called il Garofalo (1481-1559). The design must have been made in preparation for a predella panel or as part of a small cycle of paintings such as that by Garofalo depicting The Mass of San Nicola da Tolentino, in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara.1
1. See A. M. Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo. Benvenuto Tisi, Pittore (c.1476-1559), Rimini 1993, p. 156, cat. 90