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拍品專文
A study for an unexecuted painting of the subject. There are two, larger, related studies in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and a further study in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which date from the mid to late 1770s.
There is a sketchbook from 1783, 'An Album of Sketches and Notes...studies... for such compositions as Shakespeare between Comedy and Tragedy...and Niobe') sold at Christie's, London, February 1966, lot 24 which contained a drawing entitled 'Niobe'. This is possibly the present drawing, as the size of the sheet corresponds.
We are grateful to Alex Kidson for his help in cataloguing this drawing.
There is a sketchbook from 1783, 'An Album of Sketches and Notes...studies... for such compositions as Shakespeare between Comedy and Tragedy...and Niobe') sold at Christie's, London, February 1966, lot 24 which contained a drawing entitled 'Niobe'. This is possibly the present drawing, as the size of the sheet corresponds.
We are grateful to Alex Kidson for his help in cataloguing this drawing.