Lot 398: ATTRIBUTED TO GIACINTO CALANDRUCCI

PALERMO 1646 - 1707 THE MADONNA AND CHILD IN GLORY, FLANKED BY STATUES OF STS PETER AND PAUL, IN NICHES, THE HOLY GHOST ABOVE Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk; inscribed with measurements in pen and brown ink, and inscribed: Si averti che avanti dovrà andarci il telaro co la vetriata and signed (?): Calandrucci 231 by 172 mm

Newcastle, 1974, no. 86, reproduced pl. XXII; London, 1975, no. 57; Newcastle, 1982, no. 70

With Armando Neerman, London, Landscape and Architecture in Italy, 1973, no. 18, from whom purchased, 1973

This very charming and unusual drawing is probably a design for a shrine. It is clearly designed as a niche and the inscription suggests there was to be glass in front of it. The saints would perhaps have been executed in stucco, and Mr. Holland's notes compare this with the use of stucco angels surrounding Calandrucci's Assumption on the ceiling of the nave of S. Maria del Orto, Rome. A large corpus of Calandrucci's drawings is in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf. The present study is somewhat different in style, but the old inscription should be taken seriously.