Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Saints and Angels
First half of the XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Grey ink, Grey-brown ink on brown paperDomenico Alfani, an Umbrian associate of Raphael (1483-1520) in Perugino´s studio, remains something of an unknown quantity as a draftsman. Judging from the influences of Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and Filippo Lippi (c. 1457-1504), the present drawing –which is only modest in quality and appears to be a copy- seems to reflect a late fifteenth-century Florentine prototype.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.206
