BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, IL VOLTERRANO

(Volterra 1611-1690 Florence) Study of a Left Hand. Red chalk with touches of white heightening on brown laid paper. 182x154 mm; 7x6 inches. Ex-collection Blome, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt). The current drawing may be a study for the hand of a young boy holding a unicorn in Volterrano's fresco in the Collorado Chapel, SS. Annunziata, Florence. For a similar drawing see Aldega/Gordon, Tuscan Drawings XV-XIX Centuries, New York/ Rome 2000, no. 43.