Old Masters
Old Masters
Lot Closed
June 11, 04:23 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LODOVICO CARDI, CALLED IL CIGOLI
Castello di Cigoli, nr San Miniato 1559 - 1613 Rome
RECTO: STUDY OF A MALE NUDE, WALKING
VERSO: STUDIES OF NUDES
Red chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink (verso);
bears attribution and numbering in pen and brown ink, recto: Cigoli (lower right), 5 (within a box, upper left) and 12 (upper right) and also bears an inscription, verso: Gio Simonetti (?) and numbering in black chalk: 252
sheet: 427 by 272 mm; 16¾ by 10¾ in
framed: 58.5 by 42 cm; 23 by 16½ in
Sale, London, Christie's, 11-13 December 1985, lot 194
At the time of the Christie's sale in 1985, Miles Chappell, on the basis of a photograph, suggested that this figure study was executed late in the artist's career and compared it, in terms of style and model, with studies for the Loggia di Psiche in the Vigna di Scipione Borghese, Rome, of circa 1612.1
1. M. L. Chappell, Disegni di Lodovico Cigoli (1559-1613), Florence 1992, pp. 190-192
