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Attributed to Francesco Melzi (Milan circa 1491-1570 Vaprio d'Adda)
Lot 4

Attributed to Francesco Melzi (Milan circa 1491-1570 Vaprio d'Adda)

Caricatured heads of a man in academic dress and a woman wearing a coif, after Leonardo

Fermé5 July 2011

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Attributed to Francesco Melzi (Milan circa 1491-1570 Vaprio d'Adda)
Caricatured heads of a man in academic dress and a woman wearing a coif, after Leonardo
pen and brown ink, unframed
1¾ x 4 1/8 in. (4.3 x 10.3 cm.)

The Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1917, lot 466.
Probably with Bacri Frères, Paris, from whom purchased in about 1924 by
Edward Fowles, Paris and New York.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 1998, lot 59, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Formerly part of a larger sheet of caricatures after Leonardo which was in the collection of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton. The man and woman in the present drawing also appear on a sheet by an unknown 16th-Century Lombard artist, representing Three Grotesque Couples, in the Louvre (inv. 2296) and the man features, alone, in one of the drawings from the Mariette album in the Louvre (inv. RF 28757). Leonardo's original drawings of both characters were formerly at Chatsworth, where the drawing of the woman remains (inv. 824D); the drawing of the man, which was sold in these Rooms, 3 July 1984, lot 22, is now in a private collection in New York (Bambach, op. cit., no. 71).