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Attributed to Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo 1577-1660 Bologna)
Lot 29

Attributed to Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo 1577-1660 Bologna)

The head of a bearded man (recto); The head of a bearded man, in profile to the right (verso)

Closed9 December 2015

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Attributed to Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo 1577-1660 Bologna)
The head of a bearded man (recto); The head of a bearded man, in profile to the right (verso)
with inscription 'Andrea Sacch[i].'
black chalk heightened with white on faded blue paper
15¾ x 11 in. (40.1 x 28 cm.)

with Colnaghi, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, London, 1956, no. 12.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2002, lot 112.

Specialist note

Two drawings by Cavedone showing a similar model in similar pose to that on the verso of the present drawing are in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (O. Kurz, Bolognese drawings of the XVII & XVIII centuries, in the collection of her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1955, p. 91, nos. 95-6, pl. 18).