Live Auction 13246Old Master Drawings
Florentine (?) School, late 15th Century
Lot 18 Property from a New York Private Collection

Florentine (?) School, late 15th Century

Study of a male nude holding a chalice and subsidiary studies

Closed24 January 2017

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Florentine (?) School, late 15th Century
Study of a male nude holding a chalice and subsidiary studies
with number 'f.7'
pen and brown ink on light brown paper
7 ½ x 4 ½ in. (19.1 x 11.4 cm.)

Padre Sebastiano Resta (L. 2981), with his number 'f.7'.
John, Lord Somers (L. 2981; as Piero della Francesca).
Jan Mitchell, New York; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1973, lot 20 (as Antonio del Pollaiuolo).

Specialist note

The two nudes, top right and lower left, derive, as James Byam Shaw had noted in an inscription on the back of the drawing, from a drawing by Antonio del Pollaiuolo in the Louvre, Nude man seen from three angles (inv. 1486 recto; A. Wright, The Pollaiuolo Brothers, New Haven and London, 2005, fig. 119), dated to the early 1470s. Further copies of these figures are in the British Museum and elsewhere.
The central figure on the sheet is close to the one of Christ in Perugino’s Resurrection in the Vatican (Opera Completa, 77).