Lot 565
  • 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

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

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.