Rome 1690 – 1768
Pen and brown ink
260 by 189 mm
Attribution to Masucci was confirmed when a painting by Mausucci of the same subject came on the art market in 1971. The gesture of the Saint in the lower right study on the present sheet is the one that is adopted and developed for use in that painting. Stylistically this can be compared with another drawing, Three studies of the Madonna and a putto, sold at Sotheby’s in London on 7 December 1987, lot 122.