Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

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Lot 542
  • 542

Italian and French Schools, 17th and 18th century

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • four designs for funerary monuments
  • Various media

Provenance

All with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased;
French School design for a tomb with the figure of Death:
Sale, New York, Christie's, 12 January 1995, lot 172;
Pietro de' Pietri:
William Holmes à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury (according to note on mount)

Catalogue Note

Including a design for a wall monument in gray wash and red chalk by Pietro de' Pietri and a 17th-century Roman design for a medallion depicting a saint, held by an angel and putto, with erased attribution: Bernini.