Sale 9774
London, South Kensington
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4 June 2014
Price realised
GBP 2,125
Estimate
Italian School, 17th Century Design for the decoration of a square ceiling space with three figures traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash 6 x 6? in. (15 x 15.5 cm.)
Provenance
John Skippe, and by descent to Edward Holland-Martin; Christie's, London, 20 November 1958, lot 244A.
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Exhibited
Birmingham, Art Gallery, Exhibition of Art Treasures of the Midlands, 1934, no. 208 (as Correggio).
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