Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
AVANZINO NUCCI (GUALDO TADINO 1551-1629 ROME)
Lot 13 Property of an American Collector

AVANZINO NUCCI (GUALDO TADINO 1551-1629 ROME)

The Marriage of the Virgin

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 4,000–6,000

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AVANZINO NUCCI (GUALDO TADINO 1551-1629 ROME)
The Marriage of the Virgin
with inscriptions 'Avanzino' (lower centre) and 'Pomerancio' (lower right)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
24.8 x 17 cm (9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)

Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 2000, lot 14 (as attributed to Niccolo Circignani, Il Pomarancio).
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London (An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 2001, no. 8, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

Although it cannot be related to any of his few known paintings, the present sheet is a characteristic drawing by Avanzino Nucci, an artist identified by Philip Pouncey, who first grouped his drawings under the name of the ‘pseudo-Bernardo Castello’.