Lot 139: Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano , Volterra 1611 - 1689 Florence a sheet of studies: a male figure, half length, his arms outstreched, and separate studies of a left leg and right foot Black chalk heightened with white chalk on beige

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on beige paper

measurements note 254 by 410 mm

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of the Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-86, no. 41, reproduced

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1980, lot 17 reproduced, bought by Duke Roberto Ferretti di Castelferretto;
his sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1996, lot 20

This study, once part of an album of drawings by Volterrano, is preparatory for the figure of Christ in the fresco of Saint Martin dividing his cloak with the beggar in the Palazzo Duca di San Clemente, Florence. The fresco was painted around 1650 (see fig. 1). A further study, possibly a first idea for this same figure, is in the Uffizi.υ1 1. See A.M. Petrioli Tofani, Maestri del Sei e Settecento Toscano, Florence 1977, p. 37, no. 26, reproduced; (inv. no. 3381s)