OLD MASTER & BRITISH DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS

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OLD MASTER & BRITISH
DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS
SOUTH KENSINGTON
9 DECEMBER 2015

OLD MASTER &
BRITISH DRAWINGS
& WATERCOLOURS
PROPERTIES FROM Wednesday 9 December 2015
Property from the Estate
of Nigel Park to Beneft the
National Galleries of Scotland AUCTION
Wednesday 9 December 2015 at 1.00 pm
The Property of the
Late Mr Anthony Hobson
85 Old Brompton Road
The Property of the London SW7 3LD
Maxwell Macdonald Family
The Property of Ana Maria VIEWING
Espirito Santo Bustorff Silva Saturday 5 December 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
The Executors of Sunday 6 December 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
the Late George Harwood Monday 7 December 9.00 am - 7.30 pm
Tuesday 8 December 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Property removed from
Blair Castle, Blair Atholl,
Scotland AUCTIONEERS
Georgina Wilsenach and James Hastie
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ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO CESI
(BOLOGNA 1556-1629)
A seated Saint
with inscription ‘Guido’ (recto), and with trimmed illegible
inscription (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
(partly oxidized), on blue paper
8¬ x 7¡ in. (21.9 x 18.7 cm.)
£1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300
 Ç1,400-2,100
An attribution to Denys Calvaert (1514-1619) has also
been suggested.
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FLORENTINE OR SIENESE SCHOOL,
17TH CENTURY
A seated man writing
black and white chalk, touches of red chalk, stumping,
on blue paper
10æ x 12 in. (27.2 x 30.6 cm.)
£1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300
 Ç1,400-2,100
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FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 3, 9, 21, 30, 39-40, 4
47, 50, 76, 79-81, 88-9, 114-15, 117, 135-37 AND 188)
THE PSEUDO-PACCHIA (ACTIVE IN SIENA CIRCA 1530)
3 A sheet of studies; Hercules, a study of his head in profle, fve
CIRCLE OF GIULIO ROMANO other heads, two draped fgures in profle, an arm and a hand
(ROME 1499-1546 MANTUA) illegibly inscribed (recto); with number ‘3’ (verso)
A Roman soldier, arms outspread black and touches of red chalk, pen and brown ink
11¡ x 8Ω in. (28.7 x 21 cm.)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark lamb, the upper edge partially
made up £1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300
8¬ x 5Ω in. (22 x 14 cm.)  Ç1,400-2,100
£800-1,200 $1,300-1,800
Relates to a group of sheets from a sketchbook of which sixteen drawings
 Ç1,200-1,700
similar in subject, size and technique and with similar numbering were
in the H.S. Reitlinger collection (sold at Sotheby’s, London, 9 December
PROVENANCE:
1953, lot 69, as North Italian School). The artist has been named Pseudo-
B. Himmelheber (L. 4035), and by descent to the present owner.
Pacchia because of his affnities with Sienese artists such as Girolamo
della Pacchia (1477- after 1535), Domenico Beccafumi (circa 1486-1551)
and Giovanni Bazzi, called Sodoma (1477-1549). Other drawings by the
artist, and possibly from the same sketchbook, are in the British Museum
(inv. 1954,1126.2, 1954,1126.3) and in the Art Institute, Chicago (S.F.
McCullagh and L.M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, no. 260).
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IPPOLITO COSTA (MANTUA CIRCA
1506-1561) OR GIOVANNI BATTISTA
BERTANI (MANTUA CIRCA 1516-
1576)
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
with inscription ‘Giorgio Vasari’
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened
with white, squared in black chalk, watermark
Strasburg lily
6√ x 5 in. (17.4 x 12.7 cm.)
£1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300
 Ç1,400-2,100
ENGRAVED:
by Diana Scultori (circa 1530-1585) in reverse,
1577.
Engraved in reverse by Scultori in 1577 (see
British Museum Inv. 1872,1012.3459; P. Bellini,
L’opera incisa Adamo e Diana Scultori, Vicenza,
1991, no. 34, p. 220). A painting by Costa
of the subject, in the same direction as the
present drawing but omitting the tree in the
background, is in Mantua’s Cathedral. Luigi
Lanzi suggested that the painting was executed
after a drawing by Giovanni Battista Bertani (see
L. Lanzi, Storia pittorica della Italia, IV, Bassano,
1809, p. 16).
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CIRCLE OF POLIDORO CALDARA,
CALLED POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO
(MILAN 1492-1540 MESSINA)
Bacchus, on a triumphal car drawn by
lions, a satyr and other fgures, all heads
wreathed
pen and brown ink, brown wash
10º x 14º in. (26.1 x 36.2 cm.); and another
drawing, The Archangel Michael defeating Satan
(recto); The Crucifxion (verso), Neapolitan School,
17th Century (2)
£700-1,000 $1,100-1,500
 Ç970-1,400
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ALESSANDRO TURCHI, L’ORBETTO (VERONA 1578-1649 ROME)
A young general (Alexander?) showing clemency to two prisoners
with inscription ‘Alessandro Turci Veronese’
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, three corners and the right edge
made up
7√ x 10æ in. (20.1 x 27.5 cm.)
£1,500-2,000 $2,300-3,100
 Ç2,100-2,800
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(recto) (verso)
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LUDOVICO CARDI, IL CIGOLI (CIGOLI 1559-1613 ROME)
A male nude seen from the back (recto and verso) As suggested by Miles Chappell in the 1985 catalogue this sheet may be
with trimmed inscription ‘Cigoli’ and with numbers ‘241’ and ‘242’ (recto); related to a pen and ink drawing, showing a fgure in similar pose and
with number ‘8’ in a square (verso) also seen from the back, offered at Christie’s, London, 11-13 December
red chalk 1985, lot 194. Seven drawings, including this one, were offered in 1985
16¡ x 11 in. (42.7 x 28 cm.) (lot 193 being now in the British Museum, London; inv. 1986,0621.42),
all bearing similar ink inscription ‘Cigoli’ as on the recto of the present
£3,000-4,000 $4,600-6,100
drawing.
 Ç4,200-5,500
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 11-13 December 1985, lot 195.
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