Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Jerónimo de Bobadilla
Recto: Saint Luke seated on a bull Verso: Two hands holding a quill
Lot Closed
July 8, 11:17 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Jerónimo de Bobadilla
Sevilla circa 1630 - 1709
Recto: Saint Luke seated on a bull
Verso: Two hands holding a quill
Pen and brown ink and grey wash over red and black chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)
With Adolphe Stein, (1913-2002) Geneva, (London, Master Drawings, 1977, no. 11, reproduced pl. 11 and Paris, Galerie Gismondi, Dessins Espagnoles présentés par Adolphe Stein, no. 4, reproduced);
sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 2004, lot 95,
where purchased by the present owner
sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 2004, lot 95,
where purchased by the present owner
The pen and ink style on the recto of the present sheet can be compared with two drawings in the Kunsthalle Hamburg, one of which is signed by the artist: Jiero. de Bobadilla fat. anno 1685 (St Joseph with the Christ Child). Both sheets are in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.1
1. Hamburg, Kunsthalle inv. nos. 38489 and 38490. See: Spanishe Zeichnungen von El Greco to Goya, exhib. cat., Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 1966, p. 9, nos. 36 and 37, reproduced pl. 50