ID 991694
Lot 17 | ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO CESI (BOLOGNA 1556-1629)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
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.
| Artist: | Bartolomeo Cesi (1556 - 1629) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Stone |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Artist: | Bartolomeo Cesi (1556 - 1629) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Stone |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
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