- 565
Joseph Nollekens
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Joseph Nollekens
- a group of sketchbook pages with studies after 16th Century Florentine masters
- All black chalk, one inscribed in brown ink: St Peters
Provenance
Probably Nollekens' Estate sale, London, Evan's, 4-5 December 1823, as part of lots 232-262;
probably Mrs Russell (neé Palmer) of Curzon Street, London,
by whom sold, London, Christie's, 20-22 March 1847, as part of lots 212-262;
with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased
probably Mrs Russell (neé Palmer) of Curzon Street, London,
by whom sold, London, Christie's, 20-22 March 1847, as part of lots 212-262;
with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased
Literature
After Michelangelo's Pietà:
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823): a prolific draughtsman', in Dessins de Sculpteurs I, Troisièmes Rencontres Internationales du Salon du Dessin, Paris 2008, p. 104, illustrated p. 178, fig. 3;
The three drawings after Bandinelli's Hercules-Cacus Group are shortly to be published:
V. Krahn, Baccio Bandinelli, Büste eines jungen Mannes, Berlin 2009
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823): a prolific draughtsman', in Dessins de Sculpteurs I, Troisièmes Rencontres Internationales du Salon du Dessin, Paris 2008, p. 104, illustrated p. 178, fig. 3;
The three drawings after Bandinelli's Hercules-Cacus Group are shortly to be published:
V. Krahn, Baccio Bandinelli, Büste eines jungen Mannes, Berlin 2009
Catalogue Note
Including figures taken from Andrea del Sarto's fresco in the Chiostro allo Scalzo, Florence, Salviati's painting Artemisia mourning for Mausolus in the Uffizi, Florence, and Michelangelo's sculptures of the Pietà and the Deposition. See also note to lot 562.