- 119
Emilian School, circa 1520
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- The Toilet of Venus
- Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within pen and ink framing lines;bears numbering, top left corner: No 99o, and traces of lettering in the lower left corner
- 224 by 192 mm; 8¾ by 7½ in
Provenance
Bears unidentified collector's mark (partially cut) lower right;
From an Italian princely collection
From an Italian princely collection
Condition
Window mounted and laid down on thin japan paper. A few small areas of thinning of the paper, reinforced on the verso. Some light grey stains around the margins and some pin point darker spots like foxing scattered on the page. Sold framed in a wooden gilded frame, possibly 19th Century
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
The composition of the present drawing, representing a seated Venus drying her foot after the bath in front of an armed Cupid, is closely related to a reduced and reversed engraving, tentatively attributed to Agostino Veneziano (c.1490-c.1540), based on the prime version of the composition engraved in around 1516 by Marcantonio Raimondi (1480-1534).1 Although this composition has in the past generally been associated with a lost panel in the decoration of a room known as 'La Stufetta', in the apartment of the Cardinal Bibbiena of the Palazzo Apostolico in the Vatican, this cannot be proved. Paul Joannides has kindly suggested instead that this composition could be after a lost painting by Raphael, or a member of his school, or might even record a lost preparatory study for such a painting, perhaps from a few years earlier than 1516. 1. See G. Bernini Pezzini, S. Massari, S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Rome 1985, p. 63, nos. 1 and 3, both reproduced p. 353