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Andrea Boscoli (Florence 1560-1607)
Lot 3

Andrea Boscoli (Florence 1560-1607)

The coronation of Charlemagne

Closed26 January 2012

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Andrea Boscoli (Florence 1560-1607)
The coronation of Charlemagne
traces of black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
6 5/8 x 10¼ in. (17 x 26 cm.)

Parke-Bernet, New York, to Victor and Frances Levintritt, circa 1960 (according to a note in Steinberg's files).

Specialist note

According to Steinberg's inscription on the mount, James Byam Shaw suggested that this composition is loosely based on Raphael's fresco of the same subject in the Vatican, in the Stanza dell'Incendio del Borgo.