Lot 55: Pietro Faccini , Bologna circa 1562 - 1602 standing male nude seen from behind Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff paper; bears old attribution in brown ink, lower left: Schidone; and on the mount in another hand than Dezallier's: Scidone

Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff paper; bears old attribution in brown ink, lower left: Schidone; and on the mount in another hand than Dezallier's: Scidone and No.113. Doit O

measurements note 427 by 215mm

Jacqueline Labbé and Lise Bicart-Sée, La collection de dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris 1996, p. 196, no. 1003, reproduced

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (L.2951, bears his paraph and number 1003 on the mount),
his sale, Paris, 18-28 January 1779, lot 113 (as Schidone);
The British Rail Pension Fund,
by whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 1 July 1991, lot 84

Although this drawing bears an old attribution to Schedone, as Diane DeGrazia and other scholars noted prior to the 1991 sale, it relates convincingly to other nude studies by Faccini. Mario di Giampaolo has confirmed the attribution. Jacqueline Labbé (loc. cit.) notes that Gabriel de Saint-Aubin made a sketch of this drawing in his copy of the Dezallier sale catalogue.