Lot 2: Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-1596)

The Presentation in the Temple with inscription 'Perino del Vaga' black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, the tips of the lower left and upper right corners made up 199 x 155 mm. PROVENANCE N. Lanier (L. 2885). P.-J. Mariette (L. 1852); Paris, 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, lot 741 (24 livres, as Tibaldi, Une Pr‚sentation au Temple, petit Sujet en hauteur, d'une riche composition, fait … la plume & au bistre). Marquis de Lagoy (L. 1710). T. Dimsdale (L. 2426). Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445); Christie's, 8 June 1860, lot 984 (9 gns. to Clement, as Perino del Vaga). A. Sambon. EXHIBITION Paris, Galerie Aubry, Dessins fran‡ais et italiens du XV e et du XVII e siŠcle, 1971, no. 109. NOTES The position of the figure on the left in contraposto is very close to that of the man on the left of The Visitation in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and to that of Christ in The Baptism of Christ in the Church of S. Francesco alle Scale, Ancona, J. Winckelman in Pittura bolognese del'500, Bologna, 1986, pp. 540 and 533.