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
Giacomo Cavedone
Recto: Madonna and Child seated on clouds verso: Study of hands
Lot Closed
December 4, 02:31 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Giacomo Cavedone
Sassuolo 1577 - 1660 Bologna
Recto: Madonna and Child seated on clouds
verso: Study of hands
Black chalk (recto and verso) heightened with white (recto) on blue paper
378 by 273 mm
Freiherr Koenig-Fachsenfeld (L.4747);
Werner R. Deusch (L.4757);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2006, lot 61;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 July 2015, lot 66
Quite typical of Cavedone's style, this handsome study is related to the artist's elaborate altarpiece in Santa Maria Maggiore, Castel San Pietro, The Madonna and Child in Glory with Sts. Nicholas and Scolastica, Bartholomew and Lawrence and Michael the Archangel, painted around 1620.1 A study for the figure of St. Nicholas is in the British Museum.2 In that drawing Cavedone concentrates on the modelling of the drapery in the same way as in the present study. The hands on the verso are definitely related to an Ecce Homo, perhaps the one executed by Cavedone in the same years, 1620-22, for the Oratorio della Buona Morte, Reggio Emilia, but now lost.
1. E. Negro and N. Roio, Giacomo Cavedone, Modena 2001, p. 132, cat. 65, reproduced
2. Inv. no.1946.7.13.82; Negro/Roio, op. cit., p. 133, cat. 65.1, reproduced