TURCHI, ALESSANDRO
('Orbetto')Verona 1578 - Rome 1649
attributed
Title: The Martyrdom of the Forty Martyrs.
Date: Ca. 1619-1620.
Technique: Pen and India ink on beige paper.
Measurement: 34 x 26cm.
Notation: Inscribed on verso top center: "Cav.re Giuseppe di Arpino".
Frame: Mat.
Provenance:
Collection Erich Schleier, Berlin.
Erich Schleier saw this drawing as a preparatory study for the altarpiece that Alessandro Turchi made around 1619-1620 for the Cappella degli Innocenti in the church of Santo Stefano in Verona.
The current attribution goes back to Erich Schleier and Davide Dossi, Cologne.
