Italian School, 17th Century
Italian School, 17th Century

Architectural studies: A design for a niche; A design for an organ loft; and A design for stairs and a wall niche

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Italian School, 17th Century
Architectural studies: A design for a niche; A design for an organ loft; and A design for stairs and a wall niche
signed 'Filippus Rubeaus' (1) and numbered '3', '5' and '25'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark hand (3)
13 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (340 x 245 mm.); 14½ x 9¼ in. (367 x 236 mm.) ; 16 x 10¼ in. (410 x 259 mm.); and Italian School, 16th Century, The Cardinal of Portugal by Antonio Rossellino in San Miniato, Florence; and three additional architectural studies, each by a different hand: Design for a domed tower; Design for a wall or ceiling decoration; Design for a cartouche or coat-of-arms (recto), Two studies of an Ionic capital (verso); and Noël-Marcel Lambert, Porte des Anciennes Ecuries du Roi (8)
Provenance
L. Pollack (L. 788b).
An unidentified collector's mark (VLV inscribed in an oval in purple ink) (1,2,3).

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Lot Essay

The drawing of a wall or ceiling decoration was attributed to Bernardino Campi by Professor Held who thought that it might have once been part of the Leuchtenberg Album sold in Geneva in 1959.

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