Mattia Preti
Recto: Study for the Figure of Adrian Fortescue; Verso: Study for the Figure of Juan d'Eguaras
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
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Mattia Preti
(Taverna 1613 - 1699 La Valletta)
Recto: Study for the Figure of Adrian Fortescue
Verso: Study for the Figure of Juan d'Eguaras
Red chalk (recto and verso),
bears inscriptions in black chalk, verso, lower left: R; and in red chalk in a cartouche on a piece of paper formerly attached to the verso: fait par Preti Mattia / Surnomme le Calabrais; formerly inscribed in pencil in a modern hand, verso: Coll, M. le Comte de Lestang Paradeld ' Aix en Provence / Hotel Drouot 19 mai 82
376 by 270 mm; 14⅞ by 10⅝ in.
Count Melchior de Lestang-Parade, Aix-en-Provence;
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 19 May 1882, probably as part of lot 147;
with Colnaghi, New York, at Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd. and London, An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 2001, no. 21, reproduced,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 41, reproduced (recto and verso), (entry by Elizabeth Cropper);
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 46;
Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Ritorno al Barocco, da Caravaggio a Vanvitelli, 2009, vol. II, p. 89, cat. 3.52, reproduced (recto and verso), (entry by Cristiana Romalli)
K. Sciberras, Mattia Preti, The triumphant manner, Malta 2012, p. 38, p. 465, reproduced figs. 53-54 (recto and verso)
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