- 563
Joseph Nollekens
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Joseph Nollekens
- a group of sketchbook pages after seventeenth and eighteenth Century italian artists
All black chalk;
one inscribed in brown ink: VRBA...NVS VIII / BAR...BERINVS / PO...NT. MAX
the study after Bridan bears numbering and inscriptions in pencil on the old mount: 19 / Villa Negroni and on the verso: Memorandum / David Erskine. Earl of Buchan / Elizth E. [?] Montagu. Dss of Buccleugh
Provenance
Probably Nollekens' Estate sale, London, Evan's, 4-5 December 1823, as part of lots 232-262;
probably Mrs Russell (neé Palmer) of Curzon Street, London,
by whom sold, London, Christie's, 20-22 March 1847, as part of lots 212-262;
with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased
probably Mrs Russell (neé Palmer) of Curzon Street, London,
by whom sold, London, Christie's, 20-22 March 1847, as part of lots 212-262;
with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased
Catalogue Note
With figures taken from the tomb of Pope Urban VII Barbieri by Bernini, Giovanni Battista Maini's Monument to Cardinal Neri Corsini, Camillo Rusconi's Monument to Alexander Sobieski, and works by Giuseppe Lironi, Bridan. See also note to lot 562.