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Old Master Drawings

29 January 2020 | 10:00 AM EST | New York
  • Andrea Mantegna (PADUA 1431 – 1506 MANTUA)

    The Triumph of Alexandria

    Estimate on Request

  • Bernardino di Betto di Biagio, called Pintoricchio (Perugia 1454 - 1513 Siena)

    Madonna and Child

    $400,000-600,000

  • Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d'Arpino (Arpino 1568 - 1640 Rome)

    The Discovery of Romulus and Remus

    $500,000-700,000

  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)

    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    $100,000-150,000

  • Hans Bol (Mechelen 1534 - 1593 Amsterdam)

    Abraham sends away Hagar and Ishmael

    $60,000-80,000

  • Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)

    Head of a Young Girl

    $400,000-600,000

  • Roelandt Savery (Kortrijk 1576 - 1639 Utrecht)

    Mountainous Landscape with travellers on a rocky path

    $40,000-60,000

  • Attributed to Annibale Carracci

    Portrait of a young man in profile

    $40,000-60,000

Sale Number: N10307

Exhibition Times

  • New York

    • Fri, 24 Jan 20 | 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM EST
    • Sat, 25 Jan 20 | 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM EST
    • Sun, 26 Jan 20 | 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM EST
    • Mon, 27 Jan 20 | 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM EST
    • Tue, 28 Jan 20 | 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM EST

Overview

As always, the January Old Master Drawings sale will include a wide range of works on paper from all the European schools, dating from the 15th to the mid-19th century, but this year the emphasis is very much on the Italian Renaissance.  The indisputable star of the sale is the recently rediscovered and immensely important full compositional study by Andrea Mantegna for his painting of The Triumph of Alexandria, the second canvas in the great series of nine paintings representing The Triumph of Caesar, now in the British Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace.  These paintings, on which Mantegna worked from the 1480s until his death in 1506, are his greatest artistic achievement, and one of the marvels of the entire renaissance, and this drawing – one of only two by Mantegna that remain in private hands – is the only known preparatory drawing by the artist for the project that defines his legacy.

The sale also includes another remarkable Italian Renaissance discovery, the moving and beautifully preserved drawing of The Madonna and Child by Mantegna’s slightly younger contemporary from Perugia, Bernardo Pinturicchio (1454-1513).   From a century or so later, there is also a superb and moving oil-on-paper study of a young girl by Annibale Carracci, and a fine red chalk head study of a type so typical of the Carracci.  There are also fine northern school drawings, most notably a volume of studies of knights on horseback executed around 1550 in the workshop of Hans Burgkmair, and a ravishingly beautiful and well preserved drawing by the late 16th-century Flemish master, Hans Bol.

Contact Information

Gregory Rubinstein
Senior Director
Head of Department, Worldwide
Old Master & Early British Drawings
+44 20 7293 5417
greg.rubinstein@sothebys.com
Cristiana Romalli
Senior Director
Senior Specialist
Old Master Drawings
+44 20 7293 5419
cristiana.romalli@sothebys.com
Alexander Faber
AVP
Specialist
Old Master Drawings
+1 212 606 7552
alexander.faber@sothebys.com
Claire Anderson
Senior Cataloguer
Old Master Drawings
+44 20 7293 5333
claire.anderson@sothebys.com
Mark Griffith-Jones
Director
Specialist
British Watercolours, Drawings and Portrait Miniatures
+44 20 7293 5083
mark.griffithjones@sothebys.com
Hutton Person
Administrator
Old Master Drawings
+1 212 606 7230
hutton.person@sothebys.com

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