Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Italian School, 16th Century
Lot 36

Italian School, 16th Century

Scenes from the story of Niobe, after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Closed31 January 2013

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Italian School, 16th Century
Scenes from the story of Niobe, after Polidoro da Caravaggio
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (recto), red chalk (verso)
(i) 8¼ x 12¼ in. (21 x 31 cm.); (ii) 8 3/8 x 8 3/8 (21.2 x 21.2 cm.)
2 (2)

Specialist note

After frescoes on the façade of the Palazzo Milesi, Rome (P. Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: l'opera completa, Naples, 2001, no. 18). The two drawings are after the same frieze with the figure on the far right of (i) repeated on the far left of (ii).