Study of an arm (recto); Anatomical studies (verso)

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DANIELE CRESPI (BUSTO ARSIZIO 1598-1630 MILAN)
Study of an arm (recto); Anatomical studies (verso)
with inscription ‘Daniel’ (lower left)
black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso), on blue paper
16 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (42.5 x 27.1 cm)

Provenance

Release stamp of the Austrian Central Office for the Protection of Historical Monuments.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 27 March 1974, lot 253 (as Giacomo Cavedone).
Mathias Polakovits (1921-1987), Paris (L. 3561).
with Rosella Gilli, Milan (Disegni Lombardi dal XV al XVIII secolo, 1985 (?), no. 49, ill.).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 7 July 1992, lot 168.
with Colnaghi, London (Master Drawings, New York and Paris, 1993, no. 23, ill.).

Literature

N. Ward Neilson, Daniele Crespi, Soncino, 1996, no. D36, ill.

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Lot Essay

The recto is a study for the arm of Saint John the Baptist featured in the upper part of the Foundation of the Certosa composition which Crespi completed by 1629 in the fourth lunette of the Milan Certosa at Garegnano. The studies on the verso are possibly related to the figures in the Deposition Crespi painted on the organ shutters of Santa Maria delle Passione, Milan around 1627.

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