Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Gerolamo Giovenone (Vercelli circa 1490-circa 1555)
Lot 13

Gerolamo Giovenone (Vercelli circa 1490-circa 1555)

A seated bishop saint with a book and crozier

Closed8 December 2020

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Gerolamo Giovenone (Vercelli circa 1490-circa 1555)
A seated bishop saint with a book and crozier
with inscription ‘G’ (?) (on the verso of the mount) and ‘XVIII’ (visible through the mount)
black chalk, point of the brush and two shades of brown wash heightened with white, lightly squared in black chalk
12 x 8 ¾ in. (30.5 x 22.2 cm)

Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587-1637), Turin.
Caveliere Antonio Abrate (1834-1925), Turin, after 1887, and by descent to Adele Abrate Carle (d. 1956), Turin.
with Francis Matthiesen, London.
with J.P. Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva, 1961, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


This drawing showing a carefully rendered saint comes from an album of drawings assembled in the 17th century for the Dukes of Savoy, known as the Abrate album (see A. Chiodo, op. cit., pp. 139-146). The album was dismembered at the beginning of the 20th century, but the present drawing is still mounted on one of its pages. Underneath Giovenone’s drawing is a chiaroscuro woodcut by the engraver Antonio da Trento (1508-1550), used by the compiler of the album as a secondary support. For other drawings from the album, see lots 14, 28 and 55.