Staande mannelijke heilige (San Carlo Borromeo)

[Camillo Procaccini]

389

A deacon saint, standing, looking upward

Red chalk, squared in red chalk, on light tan paper. Framing line in pencil. Minor losses; three corners damaged. Lined.

192 x 95 mm.

Stamped on the verso of the backing sheet, bottom left, with the mark L. 737 (fragment).

PROVENANCE: Unidentified collector (L. 737); Odescalchi; acquired in 1790 (L. 2392).

Inv. 1854: D 56 (`Schola di Corregio'); inv. 1864: B 33 (Correggio).

INV. NO.: A* 70.



A study for the main figure in the altarpiece of Saint Charles Borromaeus in glory in the Pisani chapel of S. Nicolò dei Tolentini, Venice, painted c. 1618.[1] It differs slightly from the painting, where the figure is turned a bit further to the right, his left arm is held further from the body, and his head is seen at a slightly different angle. The altarpiece appears to have been heavily repainted (Ward Neilson, loc. cit.).

NOTE
[1] See Marco Valsecchi, `Camillo Procaccini a Venezia,' Arte Veneta, 28 (1974), pp. 261-266, fig. 338; Ward Neilson, 1979, pp. 70-71.