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Francesco Morandini, il Poppi (Poppi 1544-1597 Florence)
Lot 9

Francesco Morandini, il Poppi (Poppi 1544-1597 Florence)

Studies of the dead Christ supported by angels, with subsidiary studies for the same composition

Closed5 July 2011

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Francesco Morandini, il Poppi (Poppi 1544-1597 Florence)
Studies of the dead Christ supported by angels, with subsidiary studies for the same composition
red and black chalk, watermark mermaid with two tails surmounted by a five-point crown
14 3/8 x 10¼ in. (36.6 x 26.2 cm.)

with Colnaghi, New York, Master Drawings, May 1989, no. 8 (as Andrea Casolani).

Specialist note

We are grateful to Dr Marco Ciampolini who, as well as noting the resemblance to drawings by Poppi, kindly brought to our attention a Lamentation over the Dead Christ by the artist (Cleveland, Private Collection; A. Giovannetti, Francesco Morandini, detto il Poppi, Florence, 1995, p. 140, no. 31). The figure of Christ in that picture is supported by an angel in an extremely similar pose, albeit in reverse, to that in the present drawing.