Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Michiel Coxcie the Elder
The Torturing of St. Barbara with Torches
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July 3, 10:51 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Michiel Coxcie the Elder
(Mechelen 1497/1501 - 1585)
The Torturing of St. Barbara with Torches
Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black and red chalk, squared for transfer in brown ink;
bears old attribution to the backing, verso: Perino de Vago and a further inscription in pencil: From Zoomers + Sir Peter Lely / Collections + I believe engraved / by Marc Antonio Raimondi
274 by 189 mm
Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (L.2092);
Jan Pietersz. Zoomer (1641-1724), Amsterdam (L.1511);
W.P. Knowles (according to 1988 sale catalogue);
Mr. and Mrs. David Felix, Philadelphia,
by whom sold, New York, Christie’s, 12 January 1988, lot 68 (as Circle of Perino del Vaga, The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha),
where purchased by the late owner
A. Gnann and D. Laurenza, ‘Raphael’s Influence on Michiel Coxcie: Two New Drawings and a Painting,’ Master Drawings, vol. 34 no. 3 (1996), pp. 294-98, fig. 5;
V. D’haene et al, From Scribble to Cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections, exhib. cat., Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, 2023-4, p. 291, under no. 36, note 11 (entry by R. Fucci)
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