Lot 124: Cristoforo Roncalli , Pomarance near Volterra circa 1553 - 1626 Rome the virgin and child, with saint anne Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on two joined sheets of light blue paper

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on two joined sheets of light blue paper

measurements note 318 by 388 mm

The Round Family, Colchester;
sale, Colchester, Bonham's, 1 April 1954 (according to a note formerly pasted to the old mount)

In the physionomy of the Madonna's face, this drawing resembles an altarpiece with the Madonna and Child and Saints in the Roman church of St. Gregorio al Celio. The painting was begun by Roncalli in 1602 and completed the following year. The figure of St. Anne is drawn on a separate sheet of paper, carefully joined to that on which the Madonna and Child are drawn, suggesting that the artist drastically altered the figure, or the spatial relationships within the figure group.