Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Italo-Flemish School, late 16th Century
The Flight of Cloelia
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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Italo-Flemish School, late 16th Century
The Flight of Cloelia
Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk, heightened with partially oxidized white;
bears old inscription on the mount, verso: WR105 Clelia & her companions escaping / from the camp of Porsenna. Pen and Bistre / heightened - very fine
249 by 439 mm; 9 ⅞ by 17 ¼ in
Though the author of this accomplished and finely preserved sheet remains anonymous, the composition was surely derived from a fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio of which another anonymous drawing, though by a different and significantly inferior hand, shares the same composition and is today in the collection of the Art Institute, Chicago.1The scene depicted is that of Cloelia and her companions fleeing the camp of Porsena by crossing the Tiber on horseback, a subject commonly treated by Italian artists, though also popular amongst the Northern Baroque.
1. Chicago, The Art Institute, inv. no. 1922.731