Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Eugenio Cajés
Meeting at the Golden Gate
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Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Attributed to Eugenio Cajés
Madrid 1577 - 1634
Meeting at the Golden Gate
Point of brush and brown wash over black chalk and squared for transfer in black chalk; drawn in the upper section of the sheet within a black chalk border;
bears numbering in black chalk lower right: 4/Sa-238 and bears inscription in pen and brown ink, verso: Phelipe.. ?
280 by 210 mm
With José Manuel de La Mano,
where acquired by the present owner
where acquired by the present owner
Similar in handling and technique to Eugenio Cajes's, Adoration of the Shepherds, in the National Library, Madrid.1 The broad use of wash to create forms and shadows and the black chalk under-drawing are all evident in the present sheet.
1. D. Angulo & A.E. Pérez Sanchez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, Volume Two Madrid School 1600 to 1650, London 1977, p. 14. no. 8, reproduced pl. III
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