Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Paolo Caliari, called Paolo Veronese

Costume study for a portrait of a member of the Soranzo family

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July 3, 10:51 AM GMT

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35,000 - 45,000 GBP

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Paolo Caliari, called Paolo Veronese

(Verona 1528 - 1588 Venice)

Costume study for a portrait of a member of the Soranzo family

Black chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue paper, with letters P in black chalk to indicate the position of the fur;

bears old attribution in pen and ink: di Paulo Veronese and another attribution in pen and ink at the bottom of the sheet (partly cut)

303 by 208 mm

We are grateful to Stijn Alsteens who has kindly informed us that this drawing is published and reproduced in his article, ‘A Portraitist’s Progress for The Frick Collection, 2016, in conjunction with the exhibition, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture.

Sven Gahlin, London;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 June 1970, lot 2;

private collection;

sale, New York, Sotheby, 26 January 2000, lot 9,

where purchased by the father of the present owner

R. Cocke, Veronese's Drawings, London 1984, pp. 182-183, cat. 77, reproduced, fig. 77, and p. 193, under cat. 81;

S. Alsteens, 'A Portraitist's Progress', The Frick Collection, 2016, in conjunction with the exhibition: Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture