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GIACINTO GIMIGNANI (ITALIAN 1606-1681)JAEL SLAYING SISERAIron gall ink and brown wash on paper6.5 x 9cm (2½ x 3½in.)The story of Jael and Sisera is from the Book of Judges, Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, Sisera, the Canaanite general seeking refuge went to Jael's tent, where she greeted him, offering him a place to rest, and covering him up, while he slept, Jael took a tent peg and a hammer, driving the peg into his temple and into the ground, killing him instantly.The present drawing is by Giacinto Gimignani, a pupil of Pietro da Cortona (1596/7-1669) and is a preparatory sketch for his painting in the Lemme collection (where it is attributed to Romanelli); see La collection Lemme, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1998, p. 318, no.113.