Lot 6
  • 6

Hendrik de Clerck

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hendrik de Clerck
  • an allegory of grammar
  • Pen and brown ink and wash, squared in black chalk;
    inscribed in brown ink: gramatica 7 / plato / nero, and bears inscription in brown ink,lower left: f. Bolonese f.

Catalogue Note

This drawing must have been made as the design for one of a series of painted allegorical representations of the Liberal Arts.  Four others from the same series, representing Astronomy, Music, Rhetoric and Geometry, are in Darmstadt.1 Like the present sheet, those in Darmstadt all bear a relatively early attribution to Primaticcio, but the drawing style is clearly that of De Clerck, who executed various similar allegorical paintings.

1. Hessisches Landesmuseum, inv. nr. AE 1420-1423