Alessandro Maganza (1556 – 1630), St. Bubiana Refusing to Worship Idols

Black chalk on paper;
301 by 210 mm; This “working” drawing is stylistically very similar to Maganza’s drawing, A Baptism, in the Frits Lugt Collection.  See J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris 1983, vol. I, p. 265, no. 256, reproduced vol. III, pl. 299