The Presentation in the Temple

细节

Pietro Antonio de Pietri (Cremia 1663-1716 Rome)
The Presentation in the Temple
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on a 19th Century English mount
10 1/8 x 7½ in. (257 x 191 mm.)

来源

R. Houlditch (L. 2214), with associated number '6'.
Viscount Knutsford; Sotheby's, 11 April 1935, probably part of lot 135.
Purchased in April 1935.

注意事项

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拍品专文

A drawing with two variants of the same composition, recto and verso, was sold in these Rooms, 28 March 1979, lot 207. The positions of the Virgin and the High Priest are reversed in the other compositions, but the angel with a censer is found in all three.