recto: head of balding man with long, fluffy, curled beard; head tilted to PR;

Head of a Bearded Saint (recto); Study for an Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints (verso), c. 1520-1522

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The Florentine Renaissance artist Giovanni Antonio Sogliani prepared his paintings through long and careful planning, as this drawing shows. On one side (the verso) is the general composition for a Sacra Conversazione (Madonna and child surrounded by saints), whose details are elaborated on the other side and in many other, now lost, drawings. The head of the second saint standing to the right of the Virgin is shown on the recto of this sheet in dazzled adoration, with lips slightly parted as in prayer. His intense devotion may reflect the painter’s famously pious character.

Details
Title
Head of a Bearded Saint (recto); Study for an Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints (verso)
Artist Life
(Florence), 1492–1544
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2010.15
Provenance
Prof. J. Q. Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (d. 1980); by descent to his heirs, sale, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 2001, no. 5; Private collection; Sale, Sotheby's, New York, January 27, 2010, no. 14, to Mia
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recto: head of balding man with long, fluffy, curled beard; head tilted to PR;