Lot 47: PELLEGRINO TIBALDI (1527/28-1596) DESIGN FOR A WALL DECORATION.

Bears old attribution: del Rosso Fiorentino. Pen and brown ink and wash. 313 by 236 mm. Provenance: From the so-called Borghese album (bears inscription on the backing: SFno:66). This drawing must date from Tibaldi's Roman period, for which Vasari gives the dates 1547-50. It is a clear example of the close stylistic parallels that existed at this time between Tibaldi's work and that of Perino del Vaga: the architectural structure is very similar to Perino's design, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, for a wall decoration executed for the Massimi family, possibly for their chapel in S. Trinita dei Monti, which Perino decorated in about 1538/39 (see P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings, vol. i, no.362, illus.). For more information on the influence of Perino on Tibaldi, see V. Romani, Tibaldi 'd'intorno' a Perino, Padova 1990.