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 4. Recto: Sheet of figure studies; Verso: Design for a title page with musical instruments and the Arms of Ferdinando I de'Medici.

Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Fasolo

Recto: Sheet of figure studies; Verso: Design for a title page with musical instruments and the Arms of Ferdinando I de'Medici

Lot Closed

December 4, 02:04 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Antonio Fasolo

Vicenza circa 1530 - 1572

Recto: Sheet of figure studies;

Verso: Design for a title page with musical instruments and the Arms of Ferdinando I de'Medici 


Point of the brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink and brown, green and pink wash, over black chalk, within two sets of brown ink framing lines (verso)

281 by 403 mm

I.O. Wessner (L.2562a);
Herbert List (L.4063)
sale, Munich, Karl and Faber, 5 December 1967, lot 126;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2006, lot 160
These studies of Roman soldiers could be related to Fasolo's decorations in the Villa Colleoni at Thiene (near Vicenza) or to the paintings of Roman subjects for the Sala del Capitano in Vicenza.