BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO (VOLTERRA 1611-1690 FLORENCE)
The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Catherine of Siena and Margaret of Cortona (recto); Study for an Assumption of the Virgin and a plan of a church (verso)
with number '85' (recto) and with inscription 'Volterrano' (verso)
black chalk, fragmentary watermark hat
9⁷⁄₈ x 7¹⁄₄ in. (25 x 18.2 cm)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 December 1982, lot 173a.

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Lot Essay

Drawn in Volterrano's characteristic swift technique, this composition is a study for the altarpiece executed in 1677 in Santa Felicita, Florence. A bozzetto for the painting is in the Uffizi, and studies for elements of the composition were sold at Sotheby's, Florence, 10 April 1974, lot 41 and Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1980, lots 44a and b.