Lot 175A
Follower of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-Rome 1609)."The Madonna of Saint Matthew" black chalk and brown wash on paper, 1588 or earlier. An impressive drawing from the school of Annibale Carracci: a study for his 1588 oil on canvas painting "Madonna and Child with Saints" originally produced as an altarpiece for the merchants' chapel in the basilica of San Prospero in Reggio Emilia. Showing a stronger Venetian influence than Carracci's earlier work, the drawing displays Mary and the Christ child enthroned with Saint Francis kissing the infant's feet as Saint Matthew stands to the left and Saint John the Baptist to the right. A pair of cherubs fly above, while a third sits on the ground below. The work presents a clear influence from Paolo Veronese's "Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine," from which it borrows its diagonals, the position of the Madonna and saints and the red drape hanging from columns. Size of drawing: 7.75" W x 12" H (19.7 cm x 30.5 cm); of mounting paper: 14.25" W x 19.75" H (36.2 cm x 50.2 cm)
Carracci retains notes of his previous style, however, by depicting a landscape in the background rather than Veronese's celestial blue and portraying the saints humbly clothed and standing on bare earth rather then Veronese's richly dressed figures on stairs. All of this demonstrates how Carracci's lessons from Veronese are translated into a less otherworldly idiom, closer to the viewer's lived experience.
Accompanied by Royal Athena label reading: "Annibale Carracci, Follower of (Bologna 1560-Rome 1609) 'The Madonna of Saint Mathew [sic]' Black chalk, brown wash; water-mark: encircled anchor below a star. Es Coll. Of Capt. C. Prayer (L.2044), Milan (1826-1900); J. & F. Bernasconi, Milan & Geneva."
Paper contains a watermark of an anchor in a circle beneath a six-pointed star.
Another study for "Madonna and Child with Saints" by Annibale Carracci can be found at the Ashmolean Museum at University of Oxford under accession number WA1863.876.
Provenance: ex-Royal Athena Galleries, New York City, New York, USA; ex-Maria Bernasconi, acquired via descent; ex-collection of Juan (d. 1920) and Felix Bernasconi (d. 1914), Milan and Geneva, Italy (not in Lugt); ex-collection of Captain Carlo Prayer (L.2044), Milan, Italy (1826-1900)
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- Condition: Mounted on construction paper with black tape. Light stains to upper right and some minor wear as shown. Stamp from collection of Captain Carlo Prayer in lower right. Paper contains a watermark of an anchor in a circle beneath a six-pointed star.
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