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Lot 14
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Dirk Hendricksz, called Teodoro d'Errico

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dirk Hendricksz, called Teodoro d'Errico
  • the virgin and child in glory adored by st. catherine and st. cecilia
  • Black chalk heightened with white, the figure of St. Catherine reinforced in pen and brown ink and brown wash, on light blue paper;
    bears old attributions and numbers in pen and brown ink: tiodoro fiamengo and N. 2298s (recto); Teodoro fiamingo and 20 (verso

Provenance

Cesare Frigerio (bears his collector's mark, not in Lugt);
Giorgio Dalla Bella (L.3774)

Condition

A trace of an old fold in the middle. A few small yellow stains scattered around. Some larger staining towards the corners and the margins of the sheet. Creases toward the lower half of the sheet, some of the staining more visible from the verso. The chalk is quite fresh and paper still clear blue.
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Catalogue Note

This is a rare drawing by the Dutch master Dirk Hendricksz, known as Teodoro d'Errico, who was highly influential in the south of Italy where he spent most of his career, especially in Naples where he arrived in 1574.  The old attributions to the artist found, in two different hands, on the recto and verso, can be confirmed by comparison with his paintings.  A stylistically comparable drawing is at Capodimonte, also a study for an altarpiece, the Madonna of the Rosary (1585), in the Santuario dell'Assunta, Santa Maria a Vico, Naples.1

1. Inv. no. GDS 103314; P. Leone de Castris, Pittura del Cinquecento a Napoli 1573-1606, Naples 1991, p. 68, reproduced