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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Saint John, Evangelist, 1598–1599, Pen, dark brown ink, extensively highlighted, white, black chalk, beige paper, Squared, 10-7/16 x 9-15/16, 26.5 25.2 cm, Drawings, Giovanni de' Vecchi, Italian, Borgo Sansepolcro, 1536/37–1615, Rome, eighteenth-century, English, inscription, back, old mount, correctly, identifies, drawing, study, de, Vecchi, important commissions, cartoons, two, mosaic pendentives, under, dome, Peter'
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