Lot Essay
Previously attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592) and subsequently to his pupil Agostino Carracci (1557-1602), the drawing is more likely the work of an artist active in the Carracci School.
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Six Studies of Heads of Putti
Details
CARRACCI SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY
Six Studies of Heads of Putti
inscribed cesino/ Camiaia (verso)
pen and brown ink, watermark Coat-of-Arms with Bird, corners rounded
28.1 x 18.5 cm. (10 1⁄8 x 7 3⁄8 in.)
Six Studies of Heads of Putti
inscribed cesino/ Camiaia (verso)
pen and brown ink, watermark Coat-of-Arms with Bird, corners rounded
28.1 x 18.5 cm. (10 1⁄8 x 7 3⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Christie's, London, 9 December 1980, lot 34 (as attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti).
William H. Schab Gallery, New York, Old and Modern Master Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1981, no. 8, ill. (as Agostino Carracci).
Acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
William H. Schab Gallery, New York, Old and Modern Master Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1981, no. 8, ill. (as Agostino Carracci).
Acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March 1999 - October 2000, pp. 12 and 85 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Agostino Carracci - Die Schule der Zeichnung, 2001 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Agostino Carracci - Die Schule der Zeichnung, 2001 (no cat.).
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