Lot 233
  • 233

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Pier Leone Ghezzi
  • Cardinals kneeling before a Pope
  • Black chalk;
    bears pen and brown ink inscription on the back of the mount:  Livio Agresti da Forli, allievo di Perino del Vaga sotto di cui condotta divenne bravo/maestro, e pratico Pittore - d'ingeno sollevato, esatto nel Disegno. Mori 1580. / Orlandi. and bears numbering on back of mount:  No. 19

Provenance

Sir Jonathan Richardson Senior (L.2184);
bears illegible mark, lower left, possibly (L.474), previously thought to be that of Pierre Crozat;
Sir Joshua Reyolds (L.2364);
John McGouan (L.1496)

Catalogue Note

Sold together with five other drawings, including a Kneeling Saint attributed to Marcantonio Franceschini (1648-1729).