ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO CESI (BOLOGNA 1556-1629)

Starting price
£ 4 000
Auction dateClassic
04.07.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 991694
Lot 17 | ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO CESI (BOLOGNA 1556-1629)
ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO CESI (BOLOGNA 1556-1629)

Academy of a semi-nude man with one knee resting

with numbered ‘53’ (upper right)

red chalk

39.8 x 25.6 cm (15 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.)





Provenance

Private collection, Florence, 17th or 18th Century, possibly Giuseppe Santini.

Comte Eugène d’Oultremont (1879-1946), Château de Presles, Belgium; thence by descent.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 12 December 1985, lot 202 (as Matteo Rosselli).

with Marcello Aldega, Rome, and Margot Gordon, New York (Italian Drawings of the XVI Century, 1986, no. 40, ill.).

Private collection, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Private Collection, U.S.A.



Literature

A. Graziani, F. Abbate and M. di Giampaolo, Bartolomeo Cesi, Bussero, 1988, p. 156, fig. 84 (as Bartolomeo Cesi).

A. Zacchi, ‘Bartolomeo Cesi fra tarda maniera e riforma caraccesca: nuove proposte per il catalogo dei disegni’, in Arte cristiana, LXXIX, March-April 1991, p.120 (as Bartolomeo Cesi).

A. Zacchi, ‘Bartolomeo Cesi disegnatore’, in Bartolomeo Cesi e l’affresco dei Canonici Lateranensi, Fiesole, 1997, p. 135 (as Bartolomeo Cesi).



Exhibited

Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Classic Taste. Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, 2000, unpaginated.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
Preview
04.07.2023
Phone +44 (0)20 7839 9060
Email
Buyer Premium see on Website
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase

Related terms