AFTER FRANCESCO SALVIATI | Allegory of Peace

Lot Closed

September 20, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Nobleman

AFTER FRANCESCO SALVIATI

Allegory of Peace

Black chalk, octagonal;

bears lettering in pen and brown ink, lower left: nn and bears number, lower right, on the album page: 6

231 by 186 mm (drawing)

632 by 480 mm (mount)

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Formerly in a portfolio inscribed 'S.2' with the bookplate of Edward, Earl of Powis (Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis of the third creation (1754-1839)),

thence by inheritance to his second son, Robert Henry Clive (1789-1854), of Oakly Park, Shropshire, M.P. for South Shropshire,

thence by descent to Robert Windsor-Clive (1824-1859) and his son Robert George, Baron Windsor (1859-1923), for whom the earldom of Plymouth was revived in 1905,

thence by descent,

sale, London, Christie's, Important Old Master Drawings including Property of The Earl of Plymouth, 1 July 1986, lot 111 (as Follower of Francesco Salviati)

The figure of Peace is from Francesco Salviati's fresco cycle, Scenes from the life of Furius Camillus in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.