(c. 1560-c. 1615)
The Entombment, pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of red chalk, on laid paper, framing lines in pen and brown ink, 9,5 x 11 cm, old mount fixed to support, framed, (Sch)

Provenance:
Collection Charles Bigot (1781-1843), Lugt 493;
Collection Henri de Bourbon-Parma, Conte di Bardi (1851-1905), Lugt 336;
private collection, Belgium.

The present drawing goes back to Raphael’s painting “The Entombment” (1507), preserved in the Galleria Borghese in Rome today. The Graphic Collection of Munich preserves a group of comparable drawings with an attribution to Cesare Pollino (formerly Baccio Bandinelli), which are quite similar with the present drawing in the type of wash, particularly in the faces but also in the modelling of the bodies. The Munich drawings (Inv.-Nrn. 2228 Z to 2231Z) are particularly interesting in this respect.

Literature:
For comparable drawings of this artist see: Mario Di Giampaolo, "Cesare Franchi detto il Pollino (Perugia, 1560 circa - Romea, 1598).", in: Nel segno di Barocci: Allievi e seguaci tra le Marche, Umbria, Siena. Ed. by Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari and Marina Cellini, Urbino 2005; B. Toscano, "Il Pollino tra Romea e Perugia, Disegno e Disegni, Rimini 1998, pp. 156-167.