Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Luca Giordano (Naples 1632-1706)
Lot 55 PROPERTY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR ERIC STANLEY

Luca Giordano (Naples 1632-1706)

Study of the Apostles in an Assumption of the Virgin (recto); Head of a woman (verso)

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 2,500

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Luca Giordano (Naples 1632-1706)
Study of the Apostles in an Assumption of the Virgin (recto); Head of a woman (verso)
with inscription in ink 'd 15.' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, lower left corner made up (recto); red chalk (verso)
12 x 13 7/8 in. (30.4 x 35.3 cm)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1983, lot 58.

Specialist note

This sheet can be related to a drawing by Giordano of the Assumption of the Virgin, showing the apostles in similar poses, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (Jaffé, op. cit., no. 404, ill.). Two altarpieces showing the Assumption of the Virgin by Giordano are known: one, from 1667, is in Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, and shows the Apostle lower left in the same pose, the other a fresco in the El Escorial.