Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Antonio d’Enrico, called Tanzio da Varallo (Alagna 1575/1580-circa 1635 Varallo)
Lot 68

Antonio d’Enrico, called Tanzio da Varallo (Alagna 1575/1580-circa 1635 Varallo)

Study of two arms (recto) and two legs (verso) (i); Study of a hand (ii); and Study of a hand (iii)

Closed8 December 2020

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GBP 3,250

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Antonio d’Enrico, called Tanzio da Varallo (Alagna 1575/1580-circa 1635 Varallo)
Study of two arms (recto) and two legs (verso) (i); Study of a hand (ii); and Study of a hand (iii)
with ink numbers ‘n. 2’ (i, verso), ‘n. 32’ (ii), ‘n. 33’ (iii)
red chalk on red prepared paper
(i) 5 3/8 x 3 ¾ in. (13.7 x 9.5 cm)
(ii) 2 1/8 x 3 3/8 in. (5.3 x 8.6 cm)
(iii) 2 1/8 x 4 ¼ in. (5.3 x 10.6 cm)
(3)

Possibly Bartolomeo Carlo Borsetti (1698-1770), Varallo (with whom the numbers ‘n. 2’, ‘n. 32’ and ‘n. 33’ can perhaps be associated).
(i and iii) Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), Milan (with associated inscriptions ‘D[...]’ (i, verso) and ‘[...] 557’).
Francesco Dubini (1848-1932), Milan (according to the Landolt typescript catalogue).
with Dr Karl Grünwald (1887-1964), Zurich (according to the typescript catalogue).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 4 November 1952, lot 331, where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Both sides of the first drawing in this lot have been related by Silvana Bareggi and Filippo Maria Ferro (op. cit.) to Tanzio’s frescoed decoration of the Nazari chapel in the Basilica of San Gaudenzio in Novara (see also lot 65). The two other drawings are studies for figures in the Betrothal of the Virgin in the chapel of the Madonna del Rosario in the Basilica di Sant’Antonio Abate e Santa Francesca Cabrini in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano.