Alessandro Casolani

Studies of a putto and the infant Hercules

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Alessandro Casolani

Mensano, Casole d'Elsa 1552–1606 Siena

Studies of a putto and the infant Hercules

bears numbering in brown ink, upper right: 8..[?]

black chalk heightened with white chalk, on red prepared paper

framed: 313 x 316 mm.; 12⅜ x 12⅜ in.

unframed: 176 x 190 mm.; 7 x 7½ in.

Anonymous sale, Salisbury, Woolley & Wallis, 14 September 2022, lot 1080;

Where acquired by the present owner.

A highly comparable drawing by the artist, executed in a similar technique on red washed paper, depicting two winged putti, is with Stephen Ongpin Fine Art.¹

We are grateful to Dott. Marco Ciampolini for endorsing the attribution to Alessandro Casolani on the basis of digital images and for suggesting the drawing is preparatory for the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Collegiata dei Santi Simone e Giuda, Radicondoli.

¹ https://www.stephenongpin.com/object/791252/0/two-studies-of-a-winged-putto