Live Auction 13322Old Master Drawings and British Drawings and Watercolours
Jacopo Confortini (Florence 1602-1672)
Lot 18 FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Jacopo Confortini (Florence 1602-1672)

Samson slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 1,500

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Jacopo Confortini (Florence 1602-1672)
Samson slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass
with inscription ‘Confortini’ (verso)
red chalk
10 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (28.3 x 23.7 cm.)

B. Himmelheber (L. 4035), and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The distinctive spirited hatching in this drawing is closely comparable to that in Studies of a servant, also in red chalk, in a private collection (C. Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarock, Munich, 1977, no. 142).