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Attributed to Giacomo Cavedone (1577-1660)
The head of a bishop saint
Charcoal and white chalk on discoloured blue paper | 28.0 x 21.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905288
Attributed to Giacomo Cavedone (1577-1660)
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A drawing of the head of a bearded bishop saint, wearing a mitre and looking upwards in profile to the left. Traditionally attributed to Cavedone, and identified (not convincingly) in the Exhibition of Seventeenth-Century Art at the RA in 1938 as a study for the head of St Petronius in Cavedone's altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with St Petronius and St Eligius of 1614, in the Pinacoteca, Bologna. Although J. Byam Shaw supports this connection, the drawing was attributed to Burrini by L. Giles (Burlington Magazine, 1989, pp. 418-20) as a study for the head of St Dionysius the Areopagite in the painting of the Immaculata in the parish church of Monghidoro near Bologna.
RCIN 905264 is an offset of this drawing.Provenance
Consul Joseph Smith; from whom bought by George III c.1760; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1800-20 (Inv.A. p.84: as among 'Teste di Cavedone. Although slight yet Drawn with great Fire and Spirit, most as large as life')
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Medium and techniques
Charcoal and white chalk on discoloured blue paper
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28.0 x 21.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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