Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
IPPOLITO LEONI (ROME 1616-1694)
Lot 17

IPPOLITO LEONI (ROME 1616-1694)

Portrait of a young girl, half-length

Closed5 July 2022

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GBP 4,000–6,000

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IPPOLITO LEONI (ROME 1616-1694)
Portrait of a young girl, half-length
dated ‘2i/ [...]ggio// 1640’
black, red and white chalk on blue paper
20.6 x 13.8 cm (8 1⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in.)

with Galerie J.-F. Baroni, Paris (Sélection de Dessins Anciens et du XIXème siècle, 2000, no. 11, ill.).

Specialist note

A similar portrait of a young girl, numbered ‘6i’ and dated 1637, is at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. It.17.16). Portraits by Ippolito Leoni are extremely rare. Giovanni Baglione (Lives of the artists, 1642) mentions two portraits by him of his master and stepfather Ottavio Leoni (now in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome, inv. 591) and of his grandfather. Ippolito inherited and carried on Ottavio’s practice of portrait drawings on blue paper after the latter died in 1630.