Sketch for a fresco
by DOMENICHINO, Pen and brown watercolour on white paper, 258 x 203 mm
This drawing is a sketch for the fresco scene depicting the building of the cloister in Grottaferrata. For this wall painting twenty-six preliminary studies have survived. In this highly effective first composition sketch the miracle scene is not yet included, instead, a structure reminiscent of the Pantheon in Rome appears in the background.