Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
French School, late 16th Century
Lot 279

French School, late 16th Century

A masked figure in Venetian costume

Closed26 January 2011

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French School, late 16th Century
A masked figure in Venetian costume
with inscription 'Venetien? Jacques Bellange?' (verso)
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink
11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (29.1 x 25.1 cm.)

Ludwig Burchard, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

An attribution to Médard Chuppin (active circa 1580) has been suggested. On this rare Lorraine artist, see The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the Ecole des beaux-Arts, Paris, 1994-5, pp. 244-47.