(Castelvecchio 1559-1613 Rome) A double page study sheet: A figure with a drapery seated on the recto; a reclining male figure in a landscape on the reverse, pen and brown ink and red chalk, on laid paper, 42,8 x 28 cm, browned, somewhat stained, mounted, unframed, (Sch)

Provenance:
Stamp Collection Sir Bruce S. Ingram (Lugt 1405a) on the recto; stamp Joseph van Haecken (Lugt 2516) on the reverse; private collection, France.

The attribution of the present sheet to Lodovico Cigoli is based on a photograph and was confirmed by Prof. Miles Chappell who will list the drawing in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist.

Prof. Chappell suggests a dating of the present sheet between 1604 and 1613 when Cigoli worked on significant commissions in Florence and Rome. One can connect the sheet with a group of drawings which are similarily executed in red chalk and in pen and brown ink and show a comparable figure type: "Male Nude" (chalk) and "Male nude, seen from behind and other figure studies“ (pen), Christies's London, December 12,1985, lot 194; "Study for a figure for the Stoning of Saint Stephen", 1597 (chalk) and "Figure with drapery " (pen), Christie's, New York, January 31, 2013, lot 92.