Old Master & British Works on Paper

Old Master & British Works on Paper

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Italian School, 17th Century

Design for a lunette: Death of a saint

No reserve

Lot Closed

July 6, 03:09 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Italian School, 17th Century

Design for a lunette: Death of a saint


Point of the brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk;

bears numbering and inscription in pen and brown ink, centre right: 41 quarant-uno

178 by 260 mm

Double-numbering Collector;

Mathias Polakovits (1921-1987), Paris (L.3561);

sale, London, Sotheby's Olympia, 11 December 2002, part of lot 115 (as Roman School, 16th Century);

sale, London, Sotheby's, As it unfolds: Property from the Personal Collection of Robin Woodhead, 10 November 2022, lot 122