Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Sebastiano Folli (Siena 1568-1621)
Lot 97

Sebastiano Folli (Siena 1568-1621)

The apotheosis of a female saint

Closed31 January 2013

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Sebastiano Folli (Siena 1568-1621)
The apotheosis of a female saint
black chalk on five joined sheets of paper, arched top
17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 60.8 cm.)

King Philip V of Spain (1683-1746).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 November 1966, part of lot 86 (3) (as attributed to Pietro da Cortona).
with Colnaghi, London, cat. Old Master Drawings, June 1967, no. 19 (as Ventura Salimbeni).
with Herman Shickman Gallery, New York.
Christian Humann; Sotheby's New York, 5 June 1982, lot 13 (as Salimbeni).

Specialist note

We thank Marco Ciampolini for having suggested the attribution to Folli. He compares it to a drawing at Chatsworth which is a study for an altarpiece dated 1605 (M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings. Tuscan and Umbrian Drawings, London, 1994, p. 116, no. 85).