/internal/media/dispatcher/13857/fullFAS/D/31A draped kneeling male figure in profile facing right with additional studies of drapery and a hand holding an urnArt / Drawings16th - 17th centurylate 16th-early 17th Century15701626Cristoforo RoncalliCristoforo Roncalli28.100000000035.6000000000The drawing shows a kneeling male figure in profile, facing right, with right arm raised. Two separate studies on the recto show details of the hand offering a vessel at top left, and a drapery study at the bottom. It is a preparatory figure study for an unknown painting, possibly an Adoration of the Magi. Roncalli used this drawing to study the fall of light on the drapery folds of the figure, while the face is rendered masterfully through a few light strokes, without details and minimal shading.40.200000000048.6000000000This drawing seems to have been in the same collection as the drawing FAS/D/204 as both are laid down on a sheet with crude black chalk framing lines, and laid down on a plain mount. Both drawings include an annotation in brown ink in the same handwriting on lower right attributing the work to 'Lanfranco'. A number in red chalk is also included on the verso of both drawings.Acquired for the museum in 1933 from an unknown private collection in Malta. Support: 40.2 x 28.1 cm
Mounted (historical): 48.6 x 35.6 cmMUŻAReserve Collection525041673-4HMZA 003050DrawingM.A.R. (1933-34), p.xvii, no. 61
Stefania Lumetta, 'Dessins acquis par Vincenzo Bonello en 1933-1934 pour le département des Arts graphiques du musée des Beaux-Arts de La Vallette, Malte', in Art Italies, n° 22, 2016, pp. 125-6
Stefania Lumetta, I Grandi Disegni del National Museum of Fine Arts di Valletta, Malta. L'Acquisizione di Vincenzo Bonello negli anni di curatela 1933-34, unpublished thesis, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Storico Artistici, Università degli Studi di Genova, 2013; pp. 103-5.Heritage Malta1312Black chalk on laid paper, laid down on a larger sheet with black chalk framing lines, laid down on a plain mount.Drawing1 sheetTuscany, Italy