Lot No. 79


Bartolomeo Passerotti


Bartolomeo Passerotti - Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures

(Bologna 1529-1592) A male nude, seen from behind, pen and brown ink on laid paper, 31,6 x 20 cm, repaired loss at upper left corner, mounted, framed, (Sch)

Provenance: Private collection, Belgium.

The attribution to Bartolomeo Passerotti was confrmed by Prof. Paul Joannides, Oxford and Prof. Maria Angela Ghirardi, Bologna on the basis of a photgraph. Prof Ghirardi compares the sheet with a study by Passerotti for the figure of Jupiter in the Musée du Louvre (Inv. 8463). The motif of a male nude seen from behind goes back to a drawing by Raffael which is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Inv. Nr. WA1846.200).

Comp. Paul Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael. With a Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1983, Cat. 306r; K. T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1956, Vol. II, Italian Schools, No. 559.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at

30.03.2016 - 15:00

Realized price: **
EUR 17,500.-
Estimate:
EUR 8,000.- to EUR 10,000.-

Bartolomeo Passerotti


(Bologna 1529-1592) A male nude, seen from behind, pen and brown ink on laid paper, 31,6 x 20 cm, repaired loss at upper left corner, mounted, framed, (Sch)

Provenance: Private collection, Belgium.

The attribution to Bartolomeo Passerotti was confrmed by Prof. Paul Joannides, Oxford and Prof. Maria Angela Ghirardi, Bologna on the basis of a photgraph. Prof Ghirardi compares the sheet with a study by Passerotti for the figure of Jupiter in the Musée du Louvre (Inv. 8463). The motif of a male nude seen from behind goes back to a drawing by Raffael which is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Inv. Nr. WA1846.200).

Comp. Paul Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael. With a Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1983, Cat. 306r; K. T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1956, Vol. II, Italian Schools, No. 559.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 30.03.2016 - 15:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 23.03. - 30.03.2016


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