Live Auction 5979Old Master, 19th Century and British Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 547

Bartolomeo Cesi (Bologna 1556-1629)

A standing female figure

Closed9 July 2009

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GBP 1,375

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Bartolomeo Cesi (Bologna 1556-1629)
A standing female figure
red and white chalk, on blue paper
11¼ x 7¾ in. (28.3 x 19.4 cm.)

A. Maggiori (L. 3005b), his inscription 'Il Cesi fece' (recto) and his further inscription 'A. Maggiori compro in Bologna 16 8bre 1792' (verso).
P.G. Breschi (L. 2079b).
C. Argentieri (L. 486b).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 April 1986, lot 9.
with Marcello Aldega and Margot Gordon, New York, Italian Drawings XVI to XVIII century, 1988, no. 13.
Jak Katalan, New York, acquired in 1992, given to a charitable trust.

Specialist note

A preparatory study for the left-hand figure in Charity and Truth, one of the frescoes from a cycle of Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, executed by Cesi circa 1584 in S. Maria dei Bulgari, Bologna. The cycle was destroyed during the Second World War.