Two putti fighting

Second half of the XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink on brown paper.
Not on display

According to the opinion of Turner, the drawing is not by a Genoese hand, but seems closer in style to the work of Bolognese Samacchini: compare Angels and Putti amongst Clouds, where the morphology of the figures is similar, as are the crisply delinated outlines.

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Inventory number: D001584
Author: Attributed to Orazio Samacchini
Title: Two putti fighting
Date: Second half of the XVI century
Technique: Pencil; Grey-brown ink
Support: Brown paper
Dimension: Width: 139 mm; Height: 124 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931; I. Brun</br></br>
Entry date: 1931

Bibliography +

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 386.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 386.