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ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO BISCAINO | RECTO: THE HOLY FAMILY WITH ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST VERSO: TWO STUDIES OF A BEARDED MAN LOOKING DOWN
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ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO BISCAINO
Genoa 1632 - 1657
RECTO: THE HOLY FAMILY WITH ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
VERSO: TWO STUDIES OF A BEARDED MAN LOOKING DOWN
Pen and brown ink (recto), with black chalk (verso);
bears a number of inscriptions and numberings on the verso, in pen and brown ink: BACno 24, Devon (?) and 18 and also bears later inscription and date in black chalk: Travies (?) 1670
204 by 210 mm, octagonal shape
Stylistically, the handling of the pen and ink in this charming study is reminiscent of the work of the Genoese artist, Bartolomeo Biscaino. A comparable drawing, depicting the same subject as the present sheet, is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.1
1. Le dessin à Gênes du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1985, p. 72, no. 58, reproduced p. 73
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Stylistically, the handling of the pen and ink in this charming study is reminiscent of the work of the Genoese artist, Bartolomeo Biscaino. A comparable drawing, depicting the same subject as the present sheet, is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.1
1. Le dessin à Gênes du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1985, p. 72, no. 58, reproduced p. 73