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Figures in a scene of Christ and the Doctors c.1560-75
Pen, ink and wash, with white heightening, on blue paper | 29.9 x 17.7 cm, top corners clipped (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904816

Attributed to Antonio Vicentino, called Tognone (c. 1542-c. 1617)
Figures in a scene of Christ and the Doctors c.1560-75
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A drawing of four figures, three standing and a woman seated with a book. A pair to RCIN 905043, both seeming to form parts of a composition of Christ and the Doctors. P. Pouncey (recorded in P&W) thought they must be copies, probably from a composition of Paolo Farinati, though no such composition by Farinati has been identified.
The distinctive wiry style of the drawing suggests an attribution of these two drawings to Antonio Vicentino, il Tognone (see RCIN 906678, apparently by the same hand, with an early ascription to that artist). A pupil of Battista Zelotti, Tognone had a short artistic career (c.1560–75), which he abandoned to become a soldier. His distinctive treatment of hands and feet can also be seen in a drawing of the Judgement of Midas in the National Galleries of Scotland (RSA 156).
The upper corners of the sheet have been clipped, a fashionable method for mounting drawings in England in the seventeenth-century, and then infilled at a later date with thick paper painted blue. -
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Medium and techniques
Pen, ink and wash, with white heightening, on blue paper
Measurements
29.9 x 17.7 cm, top corners clipped (sheet of paper)
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