School of Fountainbleau

Cloelia crossing the Tiber, after Polidoro da Carravaggio

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School of Fountainbleau
Cloelia crossing the Tiber, after Polidoro da Carravaggio
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on faded blue paper, squared in black chalk
192 x 270 mm.

Provenance

Baron de Malaussena (L.1887).
An unidentified French collector's inscription 'Choelia'

Lot Essay

Probably after a preparatory drawing for Bonasone's etching after a lost painting by Polidoro da Caravaggio, printed around 1544 (Bartsch 28, 83 III).

Similar inscriptions are found in drawings by Francesco Primaticcio, mostly for the vault of the Gallery of Ulysses at Fountainbleau

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