Francesco Montelatici, called Cecco Bravo

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 2001, lot 25 (as Attributed to Francesco Montelatici, called Cecco Bravo)

F. Baldassari, Cecco Bravo, Todi 2024, vol. II, p. 103, under no. 44

A number of studies of angels by Cecco Bravo have survived, the majority executed in red chalk. The present work and another study, in a private collection, of an adoring angel facing in the opposite direction¹ have been connected by Baldassari to a compositional drawing in the Uffizi, representing The Circumcision.² No related painting is known but Baldassari has suggested stylistically a dating to the beginning of the 1650s.

^1.Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2011, lot 540; Baldassari, loc. cit.

^2.Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, inv. 10716 F; Baldassari, op. cit., p. 61, no. 26 reproduced