ID 1132874 
Lot 22  | ANDREA DE LEONE (NAPLES 1610-1685)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 4 000 
Studies of a woman kneeling and another woman addressing a prostate man
with inscription ‘Gio Be.o Castiglione’ (lower right)
red chalk, brown wash, watermark bird on three hills inscribed in a circle
7 1⁄8 x 10 1⁄8 in. (18 x 26 cm)
Provenance
Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Milan.
Don Gaspar Mendez de Haro y Guzmán, Marchese del Carpio (1629-1687), Rome and Naples; Christie’s, London, 20 March 1973, lot 9 (as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione).
with Adolphe Stein (1913-2002), Paris.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione).
Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to
Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.
Literature
M. Newcome, ‘A Castiglione-Leone Problem’, Master Drawings, XVI, no. 2, Summer 1978, p. 163, ill.
A. Czére, 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. A Complete Catalogue, Budapest, 2004, no. 221/b, ill.
V. Farina, ‘Collezionismo di disegni a Napoli nel Seicento. Le raccolte di grafica del viceré VII marchese del Carpio, il ruolo id padre Sebastiano Resta e un inventario inedito di disegni e stampe’, in España y Nápoles, Madrid, 2009, pp. 355-356, 362.
M. Di Penta, Andrea De Leone (Napoli 1610-1685). Pittore e disegnatore, Rome, Ph.D. dissertation, 2011, Università la Sapienza, drawings, no. 21.
M. Di Penta, Andrea De Leone (Napoli 1610-1685). Dipinti-Disegni, Rome, 2016, no. D.30, ill.
M. Epifani, ‘Resta e il disegno Napoletano’, in Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714). Milanese, oratoriano, collezionista di disegni nel Seicento a Roma, Rome, 2017, pp. 320-311.
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