VERONESE SCHOOL, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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01.02.2024 12:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1132795
Lot 15 | VERONESE SCHOOL, LATE 16TH CENTURY
VERONESE SCHOOL, LATE 16TH CENTURY

Mars, Venus and Cupid

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white, on gray (formerly blue) paper, watermark a ladder inscribed in a pointed oval surmounted by a Latin cross

14 1⁄8 x 8 ½ in. (36 x 21.5 cm)





Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L. 2364).

John McGowan (died 1803), Edinburgh (his stamp is recorded on a now lost backing L.1496).

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 34 (as Venetian (?) School, 16th Century).

with Colnaghi, London, (Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, 1999, no. 11, ill.).



Exhibited

Stanford, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Classic Taste. Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, 2000 (without catalogue).
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