Live Auction 5860Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 310

Bernardo Castello (Genoa 1557-1629)

Design for pendentives: the Evangelists Saint John and Saint Luke

Closed11 December 2009

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Bernardo Castello (Genoa 1557-1629)
Design for pendentives: the Evangelists Saint John and Saint Luke
with old attribution 'Lazaro Tavarone' (on the mount) and with number '19942' (on the verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
7¼ x 9¼ in. (18.5 x 23.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 April 1996, lot 112.
with Colnaghi, London.

Specialist note

The present sheet, which is probably a design for a wall decoration, is closely comparable to two other drawings by Castello, each showing two seated figures: Two Kings of Judah: Josiah and Hezekiah, in the Art Institute of Chicago (inv. 1922.5681) and Two prophets: Ezekial and Daniel, in the Museo Nazionale, Palermo. A variant of the present drawing, again showing Saints John and Luke in pendentives, is in the Kunsthalle in Bremen (inv. 37/166).