拍品專文
Marijn Schapelhouman and Christopher Mendez have pointed out that this is based on the engraving of the same subject by Jan Saenredam (1565-1607) after Hendrick Goltzius as part of a series of the Gods of the Seven Planets (B.[III/2], [75(245)]; H.[XXIII], [52]), of smaller format than the drawing.
The artistic style and name of the Master of the Egmont Albums was identified by Philip Pouncey, based on the drawings once in the album of the first Earl of Egmont (1683-1748), now at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Nicole Dacos has, on stylistic grounds, tentatively identified the artist as Dirck Hendricksz. Centen, called Teodoro d'Errico (died 1618), a Netherlandish painter active in Naples at the end of the 16th Century, N. Dacos, La Maitre des albums Egmont: Dirck Hendricksz. Centen, Oud Holland, 104, 2, The Hague, 1990, pp. 52-4 and 63-4, figs. 6 and 18.
The handling and style of the present lot may be compared to a drawing sold at Christie's, London, 10 April 1985, lot 125, illustrated, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, and those in the Graphische Sammlung, Munich and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, H. Bevers, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München, Munich, 1989, no. 41, figs. 40 and 41. Further examples were more recently listed by K.G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1992, I, pp. 422-4, under no. 244. A drawing in black chalk was sold in these Rooms, 24 November 1992, lot 69, illustrated. The artist may have been influenced by Hans Speckaert (c. 1520/30-1577), who worked in Rome, Bevers, op. cit., no. 64, illustrated.
The artistic style and name of the Master of the Egmont Albums was identified by Philip Pouncey, based on the drawings once in the album of the first Earl of Egmont (1683-1748), now at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Nicole Dacos has, on stylistic grounds, tentatively identified the artist as Dirck Hendricksz. Centen, called Teodoro d'Errico (died 1618), a Netherlandish painter active in Naples at the end of the 16th Century, N. Dacos, La Maitre des albums Egmont: Dirck Hendricksz. Centen, Oud Holland, 104, 2, The Hague, 1990, pp. 52-4 and 63-4, figs. 6 and 18.
The handling and style of the present lot may be compared to a drawing sold at Christie's, London, 10 April 1985, lot 125, illustrated, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, and those in the Graphische Sammlung, Munich and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, H. Bevers, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München, Munich, 1989, no. 41, figs. 40 and 41. Further examples were more recently listed by K.G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1992, I, pp. 422-4, under no. 244. A drawing in black chalk was sold in these Rooms, 24 November 1992, lot 69, illustrated. The artist may have been influenced by Hans Speckaert (c. 1520/30-1577), who worked in Rome, Bevers, op. cit., no. 64, illustrated.