Giovanni Baglione
1571-1644
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
5 3/16 x 3 15/16 inches (131 x 100 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper.
2015.60
Purchased on the Seligman Fund.
Notes
The study is preparatory for Baglione's altarpiece of the Martydom of Saint Agatha, now in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta. There are a number of changes between the compositional sketch and the finished work, but this is fairly typical for Baglione. A number of common details -- the action of binding the saint, the semi-recumbent figure at lower left -- point to the connection between the drawing and painting, and the painting is Baglione's only work with this subject.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and black ink in a later hand at lower center: Domenich.o.
Associated names
Polakovits, Mathias, 1921-1987, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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