Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Niccolò Martinelli, called Il Trometta
The Agony in the Garden
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July 8, 11:02 AM GMT
Estimate
2,400 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Attributed to Niccolò Martinelli, called Il Trometta
Pesaro c. 1540 - after 1620 Rome
The Agony in the Garden
Pen and brown ink and wash over red chalk;
bears old attribution in pen and ink: Correggio, and in pen and ink on the verso: V.d.M.
188 by 131 mm
Emile Calando (L.837);
Emile Calando fils (bears his numbering in pencil on the verso: 2167),
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-18 March 1927, part of lot 54 (3 drawings as Correggio);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 2013, lot 21
Emile Calando fils (bears his numbering in pencil on the verso: 2167),
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-18 March 1927, part of lot 54 (3 drawings as Correggio);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 2013, lot 21
Traditionally attributed to Correggio, this drawing shows a marked personality highly influenced by Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566). Stylistically, the drawing can be associated with the work of Trometta, a master that J.A. Gere was the first to clarify, and separate from the other followers of Taddeo.
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