Description: Numbered at lower left in pen and brown ink: 3 and e 52 (Resta-Somers). Numbered at lower right: 130 and on the old mount 759 (Sparre). Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink: "Agostino" and at lower right "Il Cristo che parla a Sta bricida / + a di 8 di aprile 1382 la dominica ad / oliva andando a le sole che'sp co'il / padre' mᵒ, Egnatio danti, A essendo questo pautt / facesimo scoppire il crocifiso santo / del quale con questa carta imm / feci questi segni dal..." Inscribed on the old mount: "Agostino Carrache le Crucifix miraculeuse a S. Brigitte, ainsy qu'il est ecrit de la main d'augustin" (Tessin's hand)

According to the inscription, the drawing represents Cavallini's sculpted crucifix in S. Paolo fuori le Mura which was believed to have spoken to St. Bridget in 1370. The inscription assigning the drawing to Agostino is in Padre Resta's handwriting. The drawing with characteristic hatching fits stylistically much better into the oeuvre of Passarotti who conducted a school that was attended by Agostino. The drawing was probably bought by Crozat at the Somers auction in London in 1717. Lord Somers, in his turn, apparently acquired it with the Marchetti collection, which he bought in 1710. This collection had been formed by Padre Sebastiano Resta. Padre Resta and Lord Somers once owned another drawing of Christ on the Cross, closely related to our sheet and likewise attributed to Agostino. A third drawing of similar appearance appeared on the London market in 1991 [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1259]

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