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ANDREA BOSCOLI (FLORENCE 1560-1608)
Lot 10

ANDREA BOSCOLI (FLORENCE 1560-1608)

Judith preparing to visit Holofernes

Closed1 February 2024

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ANDREA BOSCOLI (FLORENCE 1560-1608)
Judith preparing to visit Holofernes
with inscription ‘Buonacorsi dit/ Perino del Vaga/ 1500-47’, and ‘aus Sammlung Bateson’ (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, inscribed arch
6 1⁄8 x 8 1⁄8 in. (15.6 x 20.8 cm)

Amédée-Paul-Émile Gasc (1817-1866), Joigny and Paris (L. 1131).
William Bateson (1861-1926), London and Grantchester (L. 2604a); Sotheby’s, London, 23 April 1929, lot 119 (as Perino del Vaga).
Anonymous sale; Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 4-6 May 1931, lot 1344 (as Perino del Vaga).
Anonymous sale; Max Perl, Berlin, 28-29 June 1933, lot 1028 (as Perino del Vaga).
Bernhard Himmelheber (1898-1966), Karlsruhe (L. 4035); then by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 5 July 2016, lot 2.
with Stephen Ongpin, London (One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours Dating from the 16th Century to the 21st Century, 2017-2018, no. 3, ill.).

Specialist note

While no painting by Boscoli related to the present drawing is recorded, a sheet in the Albertina, Vienna, must belong to the same series (inv. 674; see V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 1992, p. 362, ill.). Of the same dimensions and also inscribed in a lunette, the Vienna drawing represents Judith entering the tent of Holofernes, a scene following that depicted in the present work, as recounted in the Book of Judith, chapter 10. Another version of this composition, of lesser quality, is in the Princeton University Art Museum (x1974-15).