Lot 57: BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO (1611-1689) THE FIGURE OF A KNEELING APOSTLE, SEEN FROM BEHIND.

Inscribed at the top: Ro D Mo defrari. Red chalk heightened with white chalk. 405 by 268 mm. This drawing and the following lot are preparatory studies for Volterrano's ceiling painting of The Assumption of the Virgin, executed in 1670 for the central section of the nave of the church of SS. Annunziata, Florence. Other studies related to this same figure, which appears in the left foreground of the painting, have survived, see Il Seicento Fiorentino, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1986, vol. II, p.343, no.2.311, illus..