Old Master and British Works on Paper

Old Master and British Works on Paper

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 154. Recto: Two groups of farmers, one standing, the other working Verso: Landscape with two large trees in the foreground and a bridge in the middleground.

Property from the Collection of Professor James Fenton

Bartolomeo Torregiani

Recto: Two groups of farmers, one standing, the other working Verso: Landscape with two large trees in the foreground and a bridge in the middleground

Lot Closed

January 26, 08:21 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Professor James Fenton

Bartolomeo Torregiani

Rome or Naples 1590 - after 1664

Recto: Two groups of farmers, one standing, the other working

Verso: Landscape with two large trees in the foreground and a bridge in the middleground


Point of the brush and brown wash (recto and verso);

inscribed and dated in pen and brown ink, verso: P di Lesevia / a Borgo S. Donnino. / 1655

264 by 400 mm; 10⅜ by 15¾ in.

Ian Woodner (1903-1990), New York,
his estate sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1992, lot 32;
sale, London, Phillips, 7 July 1999, lot 76,
where purchased by the present owner
Indianapolis, Museum of Art, Woodner Collection II, Old Master Drawings, from the XV to the XVIII Century, 1973-4, cat. no. 89 (as Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain)