Attributed to Domenico Cresti, called Passignano,... Lot 3
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Attributed to Domenico Cresti, called Passignano,
Italian 1558-1638-
Study of a male nude;
red chalk on laid paper, bears inscription 'Pasingnano' in pen and ink (lower right), 39 x 25.5 cm.
Provenance: Private Collection, UK.
Note: Although the 17th century Florentine biographer Filippo Baldinucci praised Passignano as a draughtsman, writing that ‘I disegni del Passignano sono maravigliosi per la nobilità della maniera, e per una loro propria morbidezza e pastosità’, his drawings have remained comparatively less studied than those of other Florentine artists of the period. Primarily a painter working in the late-Renaissance or Mannerist style, he was also a highly skilled draughtsman and, like most of his artistic contemporaries, prepared his paintings with pen and ink sketches, followed by single figure studies in chalk, taken from a posed life model. He was devoted to life drawing, and a number of his other academic studies of male nudes in red chalk survive today in the Uffizi, the Louvre and elsewhere.
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