Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Details

BERNARD SALOMON, LE PETIT BERNARD (LYON CIRCA 1506-1561)
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk framing lines
5 3⁄8 x 4 ½ in. (8.8 x 11.5 cm)

Provenance

Private collection, United Kingdom.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 6 July 2004, lot 112.

Literature

M. Lejeune, ‘Preparatory Drawings for Woodcuts by Renaissance Lyonnais Artist Bernard Salomon’, Master Drawings, LII, no. 2, Summer 2014, p. 170, no. 18, ill.

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Lot Essay

A very prolific book illustrator, Salomon made this drawing as part of a series of forty sheets dispersed at auction in 2004 (Christie’s, London, 6 July 2004, lots 99-116). The group consisted of preparatory studies for woodcuts published in Lyon in the 1550s to illustrate the Quadrins historiques de la Bible, a narration of Old Testament episodes in verses by Claude Paradin, published by Jean de Tournes (Lejeune, op. cit., pp. 147-180).

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