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Attributed to Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio (Caravaggio 1499-1543 Messina)

Studies for a Deposition and Lamentation

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Attributed to Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio (Caravaggio 1499-1543 Messina)
Studies for a Deposition and Lamentation
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, watermark arrow above a circle, an anchor to the right
7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (18.8 x 13 cm)

Provenance

Dr Franz Pokorny, Vienna (fl. mid-19th Century) (according to an inscription on the verso).
Josef V. Novák (1842-1918), Vienna (according to the Landolt typescript catalogue).
with Gustav Nebehay, Berlin.
W.R. Jeudwine, London (exhib. cat., Exhibition of Old Master Drawings presented by Wynne R. Jeudwine, London, Alpine Club, 1960, no. 72, as Biagio Pupini).
with Hans Calmann, London, 1963, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Exhibited

Zurich, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zwiegespräch mit Zeichnungen. Werke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Robert Landolt, 2013-2014, no. 3, ill. (catalogue entry by M. Matile).

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Lot Essay

This rapidly sketched drawing has been tentatively attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio (see Matile, op. cit.). On the page are assembled different studies for figures related to a Deposition and a Lamentation which are spontaneously drawn in pen and ink and then heightened with white. Polidoro employed the same media in many of his drawings, yet this sheet is executed with unique fluidity. The mourning atmosphere in the drawing recalls a more finished composition by the artist, The Entombment, in the Louvre (inv. 592; see P. Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio. L'opera completa, Naples, 2001, no. 198, ill.). An alternative attribution to Biagio Pupini dalle Lame (Bologna 1511-1575) has been suggested by Hans Calmann, and Julien Stock proposed an attribution to Perino del Vaga (1501-1547) (according to Robert Landolt’s typescript catalogue).

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