Lot 27: * GREGORIO PAGANI FLORENCE 1558 - 1605

RECTO: STUDY OF THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A WOMAN IN PROFILE AND SEPARATE STUDIES OF HER HEAD AND EAR;
VERSO: DRAPERY STUDY

8 7/6 by 6 3/4 in.; 215 by 171mm.

bears old attribution in pen and ink: <EM>Gregorio Pagani.<br></EM>black chalk (<EM>recto </EM>and <EM>verso)</EM>

Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, et al., Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts, 1977-78, cat. no. 47, illustrated

Anonymous sale, Munich, Karl & Faber, 18 October 1965, lot 383;
Herbert List (his pencil annotation on the verso);
Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz.

This is a study for the figure of Saint Margaret in Pagani's signed and dated painting of 1592, The Madonna and Child with Saints Margaret, John the Baptist, Nicolas and Francis, now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (see Christel Thiem, Gregorio Pagani, Stuttgart 1970, p. 48, cat. no G.3, illustrated pl. 2). The painting was commissioned by a friend of the painter Giovanni Berti, and was formerly in the private chapel of the Villa Santa Margherita, in Sciano, Val d' Elsa.