Live Auction 5472Old Master, 19th Century & British Drawings & Watercolours
Italian School, late 16th Century
Lot 1004

Italian School, late 16th Century

Sixteen sketches illustrating popular proverbs

Closed9 December 2010

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GBP 2,000

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Italian School, late 16th Century
Sixteen sketches illustrating popular proverbs
inscribed above each sketch with the corresponding proverb
pen and brown ink
12 1/8 x 15 in. (30.8 x 38.2 cm.); and a drawing from the Bolognese School, 17th Century, showing a man beating a saddle, a bolting horse beyond (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 16 December 1980, lot 172, as 'Circle of the Zuccari'.

Specialist note

The sheet showing proverbs seems to be related to a print in the collection of the Royal Library at Windsor, titled 'Dutch drolls', which was once in the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo.