Attribué à Pompeo CESURA dit L’Aquilain (Aquila... Lot n° 4

Saint George and the dragon Pen and brown ink, indigo wash and white gouache on grey prepared paper 33,3 x 23,6 cm Signed at the bottom center Drawing doubled, important tears and missing restored, insolate, stains and numerous folds Our drawing can be compared to a print of similar subject and composition engraved by Orazio de' Santi after Cesura. Pompeo Cesura, known as Pompeo the Aquilain (because of his attachment to his native city), was a painter active in Abruzzo during the first part of the 16th century. He received his training in Rome, probably with Raphael, and then returned to Aquila after the sack of 1527 to found his workshop. He is listed in Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi's "L'abecedario Pittorico" as a history painter specializing in oil painting and frescoes, and seems to have formed a tandem with the engraver Orazio de Santis who reproduced many of his works.