Study for the Virgin and Child with Saints Cecilia and Agnes Artist: Francesco Vanni (Italian, 1564–1610)

ca. 1605

Prints and Drawings

Not on view

This remarkably well-preserved bozzetto (oil sketch) is a study for a painting that Vanni executed for his patron Paolo Emilio Sfondrato, titular cardinal of the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, in Rome, and a devotee of Saint Agnes. In this monochrome work, Vanni studied the play of light on the composition by highlighting the reflections on the fractured draperies with fluid strokes of white paint. The fact that this sketch is on canvas, and that other autograph copies of it survive, suggests that Vanni may have executed this particular bozzetto as a presentation piece.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

21.8 × 14.5 (8 5/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Frederick M. Clapp, B.A. 1901, M.A. 1911, Fund

Accession Number

2013.37.1

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

16th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Enzo Carli (1910-1999); his heirs; the present owner
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky and Tiffany Sprague, eds., A Perspicacious Tenure: Suzanne Boorsch at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 47, ill
  • John J. Marciari et al., Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2013), 202–4, no. 74
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), religious art

Subject

Christianity Jesus Christ Madonna and Child Virgin Mary baldachins curtains by form lambs saints worship

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