Lot 5
5
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
ITALIAN SCHOOL, circa 1380

Details
ITALIAN SCHOOL, circa 1380

A draped Figure holding a Book

silverpoint heightened with white, on green-blue prepared paper, losses 7 5/8 x 4 3/8in. (194 x 112mm.)
Provenance
Padre Resta
J. Richardson, Sen. (L. 2992) his attribution 'Gionta Pisano' (recto) on the mount and 'A.59./T33./_______Giunta Pisano, Nom. incognito al Vasario. Pittore Antecossore/a Cimabù./furono trovati qti Disegni (there were about 6 of them) di Maniera Gre-/_canica de tempi Bassi del Principio del Secolo duodecimo in un respostiglio/d'una casa che fu di Pietro Perugino prevenuta circa l'anno 1653. nelli__/P.P. dell'Orio di S. Filippo di Perugia assiem. d'altri Disegni tra quali/uno di Pietro della Francesca _______/P.Resta/K.'
A. Pond (L. 2038)
J. Thane (L. 1544)
J. Barnard (L. 1419) with measurements '7 1/2 by 4 1/4' (verso) and inscription 'Sr John' (recto)
W. Roscoe; Winstanley, 23 Sept. 1816, lot 8 (2 gns. to Esdaile)
W. Esdaile (L. 2617); his inscriptions on the mount 'fld 1210 prior to Cimabue' and '42 x 3_ 1816 Roscoe' (recto). 'Formerly in the coll of Padre Resta. Richardson/Pond/&Barnard./1816 WE. Roscoe's coll. P.o1_N42x' and 'Vide Lanze 1_8/Lanzi commenced his series of the Florentine school/with this master, who was prior to Cimabue.'(verso); Christie,s, London, 18 June 1840, lot 7 (2/- 6d to Sheath)

Lot Essay

By the same hand as a drawing with an inscription 'Giunta Pisano dipins dal 1208 al 1236' in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, B. W. Meijer and C. avn Tuyll,Disegni italiani del Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Florence, 1983, no. 45, illustrated. The Haarlem drawing is clearly en suite with the present study, and may have been in the cache of drawings found in Perugia as recorded in the Resta inscription copied on the the mount. Degenhartt and Schmitt suggested that the Haarlem drawing was by a Bolognese hand of the last quarter of the 14th Century