Giovanni Battista Naldini

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Giovanni Battista Naldini
1537-1591
The Israelites Fleeing Egypt
ca. 1560-1561
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
8 3/8 x 13 inches (213 x 330 mm)
Gift of the Kasper Collection.
2020.53

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Naldini trained with Jacopo Pontormo and spent most of his career in his native Florence, where he was amont the founders of the Accademia del Disegno. This sheet, however, is from a sketchbook he filled during a trip to Rome in the early 1560s. Executed in Naldini's characteristic vigorous penwork, it records a lost fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio.
Watermark: Crossed arrows. Watermark, beta radiograph. Crossed arrows. 435040wm_2020_53_WM_beta.jpg

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