Lot 402: AVANZINO NUCCI

CITTÀ DI CASTILLO 1551 - 1629 ROME ST. LOUIS OF FRANCE AND ST. ANTHONY ABBOT IN ADORATION OF THE TRINITY Red chalk and red wash heightened with white, squared for transfer in red chalk 343 by 223 mm

Newcastle, 1974, no. 43 (as Bernardo Castello); London, 1975, no. 30 (as Bernardo Castello); Newcastle, 1982, no. 21 (as Avanzino Nucci)

J. Annan Price; sale, London, Christie's, 26 March 1968, lot 85 (as Bernardo Castello); with P & D Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased, April 1968

The present drawing has been compared to two others in the Biblioteca Reale in Turin1, which were previously considered by Philip Pouncey to be close in style to Bernardo Castello.2 Holland's notes indicate, however, that Pouncey firmly attributed this drawing and the comparable ones at Turin to Avanzino Nucci, in June 1975. 1. A. Bertini, I Disegni Italiani della Biblioteca Reale di Torino, Rome 1958, nos. 387 and 388 (as Ventura Salimbeni) 2. P. Pouncey, Review of 'I Disegni Italiani della Biblioteca Reale di Torino,' The Burlington Magazine, CI, July/August 1959, p. 297