Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 178. POLIDORO CALDARA, CALLED POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO | RECTO: SHEET OF STUDIES WITH THE RAPE OF PROSERPINA, A HEAD STUDY AND TWO SKETCHES FOR TWO FIGURES OF AN EXECUTIONER AND HIS LEFT LEG  VERSO: AN ALLEGORICAL FEMALE FIGURE FLANKED BY TWO OTHER WINGED FIGURES .

POLIDORO CALDARA, CALLED POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO | RECTO: SHEET OF STUDIES WITH THE RAPE OF PROSERPINA, A HEAD STUDY AND TWO SKETCHES FOR TWO FIGURES OF AN EXECUTIONER AND HIS LEFT LEG VERSO: AN ALLEGORICAL FEMALE FIGURE FLANKED BY TWO OTHER WINGED FIGURES

Lot Closed

July 29, 01:52 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

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POLIDORO CALDARA, CALLED POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO

Caravaggio 1499 - 1543 Messina

RECTO: SHEET OF STUDIES WITH THE RAPE OF PROSERPINA, A HEAD STUDY AND TWO SKETCHES FOR TWO FIGURES OF AN EXECUTIONER AND HIS LEFT LEG

VERSO: AN ALLEGORICAL FEMALE FIGURE FLANKED BY TWO OTHER WINGED FIGURES 


Red chalk (recto and verso);

bears old attribution twice in pen and brown ink: de Domenicho da siena and in another hand di Domenico da Siena

221 by 146 mm


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Giuseppe Vallardi (L.1223, recto and verso, with his numbering in red chalk on the verso: B455)