Transfiguration of Christ

Cesare Nebbia

(Orvieto 1536 – 1614)

Pen and brown ink, brown watercolor, squared bottom right with red pencil
195 mm x 133 mm
Anciently backed and canvassed Wax seal on the back Provenance: Siena, Bianchi Bandinelli family Florence, Giovanni Pratesi

The sheet is published by Rhoda Eitel-Porter in 2009 in the monograph on the artist (1). Several drawings by Nebbia for the same composition are known. A fresco on the vault in the Hall of Elias in the Lateran Palace shows a similar scheme.