A Fine Line: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

A Fine Line: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz

Fabrizio Castello

Allegory of Pietas

Auction Closed

July 7, 10:53 AM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz

Fabrizio Castello

Genoa 1562 - 1617 Madrid

Allegory of Pietas


Pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash over traces of black chalk, pricked for transfer; arched top

443 by 330 mm

With Alister Mathews, Bournemouth;
Ralph Holland, Newcastle, purchased by April 1963,
his posthumous sale, London, Sotheby's, Galleria Portatile. The Ralph Holland Collection, 5 July 2013, lot 247 (as Ottavio Semino),
where acquired by the present owner
C. García-Frías Checa and Isabel Clara García-Toraño Martínes, 'Nuevo Dibujos de Francesco da Urbino para el Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial', Archivio Español de Arte, XCIII, 371, 2020 (July-September), p. 235 and note 92