Live Auction 2249The Scholars Eye: Property from the Julius Held Collection Part II
French School, first quarter, 18th Century
Lot 288

French School, first quarter, 18th Century

God the Father, after Michelangelo

Closed30 January 2009

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French School, first quarter, 18th Century
God the Father, after Michelangelo
black, red and white chalk
9½ x 13½in. (241 x 343 mm.); and Jean-Robert Ango, Saint Cecilia playing the organ (2)

Van Parys (L. 2531).
Anonymous sale; Ketterer, Stuttgart, sale no. 487, 1953 (as by Peter Paul Rubens) (1).

Specialist note

The French School drawing was aquired as a work by Rubens and was later attributed to Watteau by J. Mathey. It is after Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. Rubens did a drawing of this same subject in red chalk now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool of which the present sheet and another in the Národní Galerie in Prague are copies (Logan and Plomp, p. 308). There is also a lithograph of the composition by J.C. Lödel.