Old Master & British Works on Paper

Pietro Paolo Baldini

The Madonna and Child in Glory appearing to two kneeling female Saints

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Pietro Paolo Baldini

Rome 1611 - circa 1650

The Madonna and Child in Glory appearing to two kneeling female Saints

Pen and brown ink over black chalk, heightened with white, on faded blue paper;

bears old attribution in pencil, lower right: Romanelli

340 by 240 mm

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2003, lot 47

The attribution to Baldini was first suggested by Dr. Jörg Merz in 1988, who also proposed that the drawing might relate to an altarpiece of The Madonna with Saint Matthew and Saint Cecilia in the Buratti Chapel in San Nicolò da Tolentino, Rome, which was decorated by Baldini between 1642 and 1648.