OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JERROLD AND JACKIE ZIFF (LOTS 983-1062)

Benjamin Robert Haydon (Plymouth 1786-1846 London)

Study for The Judgement of Solomon

Details

Benjamin Robert Haydon (Plymouth 1786-1846 London)
Study for The Judgement of Solomon
pen and brown ink, on two joined sheets of paper with proprietary watermark J Honig & Zoonen and armorial
18 3/8 x 14 in. (467 x 357 mm.)

Provenance

with Alister Mathews, Bournemouth, where acquired by the current owner, 1968.

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Lot Essay

Related to Haydon's 1814 painting The Judgement of Solomon in the Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery (D.B. Brown, Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846, Cumbria, 1996, p. 11, repr.). The two children holding tablets in the drawing are replaced in the painting by two women swooning with one holding an infant. The clouds in which the scene takes place in the drawing are replaced by classical columns in the painting.

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