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Lot Essay
The artistic personality of Jacopo Confortini began to be defined only around the 1960s, when Christel and Gunter Thiem identified a number of drawings connected to the fresco decoration in Santa Trinita in Florence, a project signed and dated by the artist (C. Thiem and G. Thiem, ‘Der Zeichner Jacopo Confortini’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistoriscen Institutes in Florenz, XI, nos. 2-3, 1964, pp. 153-165).
The Standing man on this sheet, most likely a pilgrim holding a staff, cannot be connected with any of Confortini’s known paintings. However, the technique of red chalk, the quick graphic style, and the typology of the figure wrapped in abundant clothing with a small head of fluffy curly hair, are characteristic of the artist's work.
The Standing man on this sheet, most likely a pilgrim holding a staff, cannot be connected with any of Confortini’s known paintings. However, the technique of red chalk, the quick graphic style, and the typology of the figure wrapped in abundant clothing with a small head of fluffy curly hair, are characteristic of the artist's work.