Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Circle of Antonio de Pereda
Two Studies of Saints: A) Recto: Saint Jerome Verso: Head studies and a study of a hand B) Male saint with his hands crossed at his chest
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July 8, 11:19 AM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
Drawings from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz
Circle of Antonio de Pereda
Two Studies of Saints:
A) Recto: Saint Jerome
Verso: Head studies and a study of a hand
B) Male saint with his hands crossed at his chest
Both black and white chalk on brown paper; A) within black chalk framing lines, B) within a drawn black chalk oval;
B) bears numbering in red ink, upper left: 119
each 230 by 172 mm
(2)
Bears unidentified collector's mark on backing sheet, not in Lugt;
sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 11 December 2009, part of lot 323 (as Italian School, 18th Century)
where purchased by the present owner
sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 11 December 2009, part of lot 323 (as Italian School, 18th Century)
where purchased by the present owner
These devotional studies of saints are stylistically similar to the work of Antonio de Pereda (1611 – 1678). Pereda was born in Valladolid but his training and style are wholly Madridlenian. He began his artistic training under the guidance of Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, Marqués de la Torre, who gave the young artist the opportunity to work at the Buen Retiro palace on the decoration of the Hall of Kingdoms. After the Marqués’s death, Antonio de Pereda discontinued his work at the palace and dedicated his career to religious painting. For comparable works by Pereda, see: D. Angulo & A.E. Pérez Sánchez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings: Madrid 1600-1650, London 1977, p. 55, nos. 297, 307 & 308.
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