Gesu Bambino dormiente sulla Croce

Object number2007.85.27

Date1932

MediumCardstock; Ink; Graphite

Credit LineGift of Joseph D'Andrea

DescriptionPencil drawing on rectangular lightweight cardstock. Drawing: infant sleeping upon a cross with a town in top right corner background. Reproduction of a Cristofano Allori original. Dimensions7.875 x 11.375 in. (20 x 28.9 cm)
Signed"Guy M. Cercone" in the viewer's bottom right corner.
InscriptionsText in the viewer's bottom left corner "Cristofano Allori".
MarksText at bottom center "Gesù Bambino dormiente sulla Croce".
Historical NotesDrawing by artist Guy Cercone. Guy Cercone was an Italian-American freelance artist who did work for local department stores in the 1940s-1950s. Cristofano Allori (October 17, 1577 - April 1, 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. His pictures are distinguished by their close adherence to nature and the delicacy and technical perfection of their execution. The finest of his works is his Judith with the Head of Holofernes. It exists in two copies in the Pitti Palace in Florence and in the Queen's Gallery in London. The model for the Judith was his mistress, the beautiful Mazzafirra, who is also represented in his Magdalene; and the head of Holofernes is generally supposed to represent himself.

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