Live Auction 5433Old Master & British Pictures & Old Master Drawings
Italian School, 16th Century
Lot 331

Italian School, 16th Century

A scene from the story of Niobe, after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Closed2 December 2008

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GBP 2,375

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Italian School, 16th Century
A scene from the story of Niobe, after Polidoro da Caravaggio
pen and brown ink, on light brown paper
7 x 16¼ in. (185 x 418 mm.); and ten other drawings by various hands (11)

N. Lanier (L.2886).
J. Richardson Sen. (L.2184).

Specialist note

After a painted frieze executed by Polidoro on the façade of Palazzo Milesi, Rome (see L. Ravelli, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Milan, 1978, pp. 370-3).