A group of tradesmen, two carrying platters on their heads

Details

Ercole Setti (Modena 1530-1617)
A group of tradesmen, two carrying platters on their heads
with inscription 'carne di cacia' (?) and numbering '110'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark Orfini arms
10 7/8 x 16½ in. (277 x 420 mm.)

Provenance

With Giorgio Neerman, Milan, 1971.

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Lot Essay

One of a group of 125 drawings of tradesmen and market scenes formerly bound in an album in a private collection in Turin (F. Zava Boccazzi, 'An unpublished album of drawings by Ercole Setti', Master Drawings, VI (1969), pp. 356-363, pls. 1-9). A drawing from the same group showing Vendors of Horoscopes is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (J. Bean, 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no. 238), while another was formerly in the collection of Pierre de Charmant; Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 10.

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