Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Lelio Orsi

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

Auction Closed

January 26, 04:31 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lelio Orsi

Novellara 1511 - 1587

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun


Pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash, heightened with white, on paper washed light brown

214 by 311 mm; 8⅜ by 12¼ in.

Marquis Charles de Valori (1820-1883), Paris (L.2500);
With P & D Colnaghi & Co., London (Old Master Drawings, 1986, no. 3), from whom purchase in 1986 by
Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, Mass. (bears his mark, verso, not in Lugt),
his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2008, lot 14
K. Salatino et al, Gray Collection: Pure Drawing, exhib. cat., Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, 2020-21, p. 105, under no. 4, reproduced fig. 4.3
Reggio Emilia, Teatro Valli, Lelio Orsi 1511-1587: dipinti e disegni, 1987-88, no. 15, reproduced, and on front cover;
Gainesville, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (and Lawrence, Kansas; Minneapolis; Cambridge, Mass.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Montreal), Italian Old Master Drawings From the Collection of Jeffrey EHorvitz, 1991-93, no. 7