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ATTRIBUTED TO ALBERTO ALBERTI | Recto: Two grotesque ornaments with monsters Verso: Head of Medusa and a grotesque ornament

Lot Closed

September 20, 02:08 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ATTRIBUTED TO ALBERTO ALBERTI

1525 - 1599

Recto: Two grotesque ornaments with monsters

Verso: Head of Medusa and a grotesque ornament

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk (recto and verso)

328 by 225 mm (drawing)

499 by 350 mm (mount)

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Lodewijk Houthakker (L.3893)

P. Fuhring, Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament: The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, 2 Vols, London 1989, vol. II p. 45, no. 11, recto and verso reproduced

Sold together with:

Italian School, 16th Century

Design for a frieze

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

130 by 427 mm (drawing)

350 by 500 mm (mount)

Provenance: Lodewijk Houthakker (L.3893)

Literature: P. Fuhring, op.cit., no. 143