Description: Inscribed in pen and black ink in lower left corner: Bricci, Cabin. de Crozat. Numbered in pen and black ink in lower right corner: 28. Numbered in pen and black ink in lower right corner: 1093 (Sparre). Inscribed in pen and brown ink on verso: Brizzi Vecchio D.6-Z.15

This is a study, in reverse, for a painting of the saint kneeling before a Madonna in the sky, accompanied by angels, in the Oratorio del Crocefisso, Capugnano di Porretta in Bologna. The iconography derives from a painting with a related subject by Ludovico Carracci in the Lansdowne collection,  dated by Bodmer and Denis Mahon th the second half of the first decade of the 17th century. Hermann-Atorino compares the drawing with a drawing in the Albertina representing St. James the Greater and a hermit kneeling in front of a statue of the Virgin and child. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1305]

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