GIORGIO VASARI
(1511 – Arezzo – 1574 – Florence)
Allegory of Eternity; Study for the Main Fresco of the Central Vault in the Refectory at Monteoliveto, Naples.
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper, squared for transfer in red chalk, partial framing lines.
Octagonal: 285 x 233 mm.
Executed ca. 1544 – 1545.
Inscribed by the artist: ETERNIT/AS.
Provenance :
From 1822 Steengracht collection; private collection Germany
Bibliography:
Florian Härb, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Rome, 2015, p. 266, no. 118a. ill.