Lot 33: GIOVANNI BILIVERT MAASTRICHT 1576 - 1666 (?)

THE MARTYRDOM OF A MALE SAINT

measurements note
129 by 103mm

bears signature in pen and brown ink: Cigoli

pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk; a red chalk study of a male nude on the backing sheet

PROVENANCE

Coccapani Collection, Florence (L.2729)

EXHIBITED

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Italiaanse Tekeningen, 1970, cat. no. 83, reproduced p. 78, fig. 59 (as Cigoli)

NOTE

Miles Chappell has identified the collector's dry stamp, L.2729, as belonging to the Coccapani family, in particular the artists Sigismondo and Giovanni. The collection contained many works by Cigoli and his circle, and almost exclusively Florentine drawings, suggesting it was assembled by a Florentine collector (see Miles C. Chappell, 'On the Identification of a Collector's Mark, L.2729', Master Drawings, vol. XXI, no. 1, 1983, p. 36ff.). Though this drawing was attributed to Cigoli in the 1970 exhibition catalogue, Miles Chappell believes it is by Bilivert, and has kindly pointed out a stylistic comparison with a drawing of Christ carrying the Cross in the Uffizi, inv. no.9610F (see Roberto Contini, Bilivert, Florence 1985, reproduced fig. 26).