Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Filippo Bellini (Urbino circa 1550-1604)
Lot 44

Filippo Bellini (Urbino circa 1550-1604)

The Virgin and Child enthroned with attending musicians, and other studies (recto); The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (verso)

Closed8 December 2020

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Filippo Bellini (Urbino circa 1550-1604)
The Virgin and Child enthroned with attending musicians, and other studies (recto); The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (verso)
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto); red chalk and red wash (verso)
7 ¼ x 6 ¾ in. (18.3 x 17.2 cm)

Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), Milan (with associated inscription ‘D. 390’).
Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891), Milan and Bergamo.
Francesco Dubini, (1848-1932), Milan.
with Dr Karl Grünwald (1887-1964), Zurich (this and the above according to the Landolt typescript catalogue), from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Filippo Bellini trained with Federico Barocci and was one of his most talented pupils. The quickly sketched figures of the Madonna and Child on the recto are closely related, both in technique and typology of the figures, to other drawings by the artist (see C. Monbeig Goguel, ‘“Filippo Bellini da Urbino della Scuola del Baroccio”’, Master Drawings, XIII, 1975, no. 4, pp. 347-370). More rarely, the artist executed drawings exclusively in red chalk like the Flight into Egypt on the verso of this sheet.