Lot 241: ALESSANDRO MAGANZA

VICENZA 1556 - AFTER 1630 ST. BIBIANA REFUSING TO WORSHIP IDOLS Black chalk 301 by 210 mm

With Alister Matthews, Bournemouth, from whom purchased, October 1964

This is stylistically very close to Maganza's drawing, A Baptism, in the Frits Lugt Collection.1 Both can be described as 'working' drawings where the number of pentimenti show the artist changing and developing ideas within the composition. 1. J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris 1983, vol. I, p. 265, no. 256, reproduced vol. III, pl. 299