Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Bologna 1570-1625 Milan)
Lot 63

Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Bologna 1570-1625 Milan)

A male and female head

Closed8 December 2020

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GBP 1,500

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Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Bologna 1570-1625 Milan)
A male and female head
with inscription ‘Procacin[...]’
red chalk
5 5/8 x 7 ½ in. (14.2 x 18.8 cm); together with a counterproof of the drawing
(2)

(i) Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), Milan (L. 1223).
with Dr Karl Grünwald (1887-1964), Zurich (according to the Landolt typescript catalogue).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 4 November 1952, lot 278, where acquired by Robert Landolt.
(ii) Principi Castelbarco, Milan.
with Hans Calmann, London, 1959 (this and the above according to the Landolt typescript catalogue), from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Head studies in red chalk or pen and brown ink are characteristic for this Bolognese artist, such as the Two bearded men at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, datable around 1610 (N. Ward Neilson, Giulio Cesare Procaccini disegnatore, Busto Arsizio, 2004, no. 141, fig. 86).