Peter de Witte, called Candid
God the father, among clouds
Lot Closed
September 23, 02:13 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Peter de Witte, called Candid
Bruges circa 1548 - 1628 Munich
God the father, among clouds
Black chalk and pen and dark brown ink, with touches of red chalk;
bears monogram in black chalk, top right: AVD and later numbering and inscriptions in pencil, verso: No551 / B. Bandinelli / Dieu sur des Nuages
144 by 192 mm
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2017, lot 9
Pieter Candid made a number of paintings in which the figure of God the Father appears rather similarly to this drawing, notably the Annunciation, in the Saint Michael's Church, Munich.1
1. Pieter de Witte/Pietro Candido, Un pittore del Cinquecento tra Volterra e Monaco, exh. cat., Volterra, Palazzo dei Priori, 2009, p. 72, fig. 5
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