Live Auction 17420Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School
After Baldassare Peruzzi (Ancaiano 1481-1536 Rome), 16th or 17th Century
Lot 23

After Baldassare Peruzzi (Ancaiano 1481-1536 Rome), 16th or 17th Century

The Holy Family (recto); The Holy Family and studies of a seated draped woman (verso)

Closed4 December 2018

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After Baldassare Peruzzi (Ancaiano 1481-1536 Rome), 16th or 17th Century
The Holy Family (recto); The Holy Family and studies of a seated draped woman (verso)
with inscription 'Pirro Ligorio' (recto and verso) and with number 'N° 198.'
black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso)
11 x 8 3/8 in. (27.7 x 21.4 cm)

William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836), his mount and with his attribution 'Pirro Ligorio Nap.˚/ Pitt. ed Arch.'; T. Philipe, London, 6-23 June 1814, lot 727, 'LIGORIO (Pirro), One - the holy family – free pen – studies on the back – very fine'.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
Samuel Woodburn, London (1786-1853), from the Collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence; Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot 28, 'The Holy Family, LIGORIO; Virgin and Child, CIGNANI; The Feast at Cana, PAGANI, (5)' (13s. to Bloxam).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ born 1686 died 1748 [crossed out]' (on the mount).

Specialist note

This is a copy after a drawing by Peruzzi of about 1515 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (inv. 87.GG.20; see G. Goldner and L. Hendrix, European Drawings, 2. Catalogue of the collections, Los Angeles, 1992, no. 31, ill.), which was possibly squared in black chalk to be copied in the present drawing. The lively sketches of female figures in black chalk on the verso were likely copied from the same sheet too (the Getty sheet is currently laid down). The Bloxam sheet appears to be by the same hand as other copies after Peruzzi in the Taccuino Senese at the Biblioteca Comunale of Siena (F. Sodi, Taccuino S IV 7 detto di Baldassarre Peruzzi della Biblioteca Comunale di Siena, Siena 1981), some of which have now been attributed to the sculptor Prospero Antichi (d. 1599).