Pierre Puget (1620-1694)

Design for an ornamental Cartouche framed by a winged Triton's Head and Tail, flanked by two shells, after Giambologna

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Pierre Puget (1620-1694)
Design for an ornamental Cartouche framed by a winged Triton's Head and Tail, flanked by two shells, after Giambologna
black chalk
185 x 295 mm.; and another drawing of the head of a blowing putto by the same hand (2)
Provenance
Arthur M. Sackler.
Literature
H. Herding, Pierre Puget. Das bildnerische Werk, Berlin, 1970, p. 40, fig. 18.

Lot Essay

These two drawings come from an album of copies formerly in a Swiss private collection. Other sheets are at Philadelphia, Cleveland and at the U.C.L.A., Los Angeles. A drawing of that series (P. Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections, exhib. cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972, no. 119, pl. 43) bears an old attribution and is similar to a head in Puget's famous relief Alexander and Diogenes.

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