Saint John the Evangelist, 1598?1599, Pen and

Saint John the Evangelist, 1598-1599, Pen and dark brown ink, extensively highlighted with white, over black chalk, on beige paper. Squared in black chalk, 10-7/16 x 9-15/16 in. (26.5 x 25.2 cm), Drawings, Giovanni de Vecchi (Italian, Borgo Sansepolcro 1536/37-1615 Rome), An eighteenth-century English inscription on the back of the old mount correctly identifies this drawing as a study for one of Giovanni de Vecchi's most important commissions, the cartoons for two of the mosaic pendentives under dome in Saint Peter's

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