Lot 25: Lazzaro Tavarone , Genoa 1556 - 1641 the martyrdom of st andrew Pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk, with touches of white heightening, on gray-brown paper. Octagonal shape, within pen and brown ink framing lines

Pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk, with touches of white heightening, on gray-brown paper. Octagonal shape, within pen and brown ink framing lines

measurements note 261 by 261mm

New York, Flavia Ormond at the Adelson Galleries, Italian Old Master Drawings, 1500-1850, January 1996, no. 9

With Flavia Ormond, London; acquired in 1996

In her exhibition catalogue, Flavia Ormond suggested that this is a work of around 1633 and that it might be connected with Tavarone's paintings in S. Andrea, Genoa. Another drawing for that project, also octagonal in shape, shows the Saint turning away from the viewer and being led towards his distant cross (identified by its traditional X-shaped form).υ1 At that time, Tavarone was working on other Genoese commissions, some of which also included octagonal compositions. Mrs Ormond acknowledged the help of Mary Newcome Schleier in the preparation of her entry. 1. Sold London, Phillips, 7 December 1994, lot 216, reproduced.