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ATTRIBUTED TO VENTURA SALIMBENI (1568-1613)
The head and shoulders of a man

red chalk
7⅜ x 8⅛ in. (18.7 x 20.7 cm.)

Provenance
John Withcombe Bayley.
with de Beer.
Sir John Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994); Christie's, New York, 10 January 1996, lot 21.
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Lot Essay

Drawn with bold use of red chalk, this quick study was previously part of the collection of Sir John Pope-Hennessy. He related this figure to that in the left foreground of a lunette fresco of Saint Bernardino healing a Child in the Oratorio di S. Bernardino, Siena. Furthermore, he noticed that the figure in this sheet relates even closer to a study for the fresco in the Uffizi (A. Petrioli Tofani, Disegni esposti, Florence, 1986, I, no. 833E, ill.).

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