Circle of GIROLAMO DA CARPI (1501-1556)

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Circle of GIROLAMO DA CARPI (1501-1556)

A Bacchic Procession (recto); Three Muses and Friezes, after the Antique (verso)

numbered 'No 52'; pen and brown ink
4½ x 13in. (114 x 331mm.), and three other drawings by Italian and French hands (4)

Lot Essay

The reliefs on the right are copied from two Antique friezes built into the walls of San Lorenzo Fuori Le Mura, that now are in the Museo Capitolino, P. Bober and R. Rubninsein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, London, 1986, no. 193, illustrated.