98 - Francesco Coghetti Front: Study of Saint Peter - Back: Study of a Female Portrait Front: Study of Saint Peter - Back: Study of a Female Portrait c. 1847. Black chalk with white chalk highlights on light brown paper, 350 x 240 mm

Francesco Coghetti Front: Study of Saint Peter - Back: Study of a Female Portrait Front: Study of Saint Peter - Back: Study of a Female Portrait c. 1847. Black chalk with white chalk highlights on light brown paper, 350 x 240 mm The front of the drawing shows an initial study for the figure of Saint Peter. The roughly sketched silhouette appears in the foreground of the monumental altarpiece depicting the Assumption of the Virgin, created in 1847 for the Cathedral of Porto Maurizio. Signed lower right “F.sco Coghetti fece.” Bibliographic reference: F. Mazzocca, Francesco Coghetti in “I Pittori bergamaschi dell’Ottocento. Il primo Romanticismo L’Accademia,” Bergamo 1992, p. 128