Baldassare Franceschini, known as Volterrano (1611-1689), Study for Saint Joseph holding a staff decorated with lilies (recto), Study for Saint Joachim holding a crozier (verso), black stone and white chalk on beige paper, 40x27 cm (on view) Provenance: Finarte, Milan, Anonymous sale, 29-30 March 1979, lot no. 166 Bibliography: M.C. Cecilia Fabbri et al, Volterrano. Baldassare Franceschini (1611-1690), Florence, 2013, p. 206 Note: Studies for the figures of Saints Joseph and Joachim on the fresco, executed by Volterrano between 1653-1661, of the Coronation of the Virgin adorning the dome of the Niccolini Chapel in the church of Santa Croce (M.C. Fabbri et al., op. cit. no. 54a, pp. 201-209. For a detail of the fresco showing these two figures, see R. Spinelli, Cappella Niccolini in Santa Croce , in Cappelle barocche a Firenze, Florence, 1990, p. 124 fig. 27. A Swiss Private Collection Lots 26 to 30, 2697 to 2701, 2703 and 2705 to 2707 marked in green in the printed catalogue come from a private Swiss collection. The collection is made up of high quality old paintings and drawings painstakingly assembled over almost 40 years (see page 33 of the printed catalogue). We would like to thank Benjamin Peronnet for writing the notes on the drawings in this collection.