French School, first quarter, 18th Century

God the Father, after Michelangelo

Details

French School, first quarter, 18th Century
God the Father, after Michelangelo
black, red and white chalk
9½ x 13½in. (241 x 343 mm.); and Jean-Robert Ango, Saint Cecilia playing the organ (2)

Provenance

Van Parys (L. 2531).
Anonymous sale; Ketterer, Stuttgart, sale no. 487, 1953 (as by Peter Paul Rubens) (1).

Literature

P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, III, R 143 (described as 'typiquement flamand').
A.-M. Logan and M.C. Plomp, exhib. cat., Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005, p. 308, under no. 115 (1).

Exhibited

Binghamtom, University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton and elsewhere, Drawings from the Held Collection, 1970, no. 75 (as Antoine Watteau) (1).

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Lot Essay

The French School drawing was aquired as a work by Rubens and was later attributed to Watteau by J. Mathey. It is after Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. Rubens did a drawing of this same subject in red chalk now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool of which the present sheet and another in the Národní Galerie in Prague are copies (Logan and Plomp, p. 308). There is also a lithograph of the composition by J.C. Lödel.

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