Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 60. Recto: a nymph and a cupid dragging a satyr; Verso: a satyr.

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Recto: a nymph and a cupid dragging a satyr; Verso: a satyr

Lot Closed

December 4, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Florence 1727 - 1785 London

Recto: a nymph and a cupid dragging a satyr;

Verso: a satyr


Red chalk (recto and verso);

bears pencil signature: cipriani

190 by 205 mm

2

Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a), by whom gifted in 1962 to
Michael Ingram (bears his collectors mark, not in Lugt),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 55;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2016, lot 229
This drawing is sold with another study by Cipriani of a warrior, after an antique relief, in red chalk on light grey washed paper.  Both drawings were gifts to Michael Ingram from his uncle, Sir Bruce, and come from an album of drawings by Cipriani formerly in his collection.