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Baccio Bandinelli

The Descent from the Cross

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Baccio Bandinelli

(Florence 1488/93 - 1560)

The Descent from the Cross


Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk

Lord Somers' shelf mark, K1 (cut off; possibly K117); probably inscribed by Jonathan Richardson Sr., who remounted the drawing for Lord Somers, on mount below the drawing at center in pen and brown ink: Baccio Bandinelli

383 by 281 mm; 15⅛ by 11 in.

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666), London (pos­sibly L.2885);

possibly Gaspare Antonio, Cardinal Cavaliere, Bishop of Capua (1648-1690);

Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714);

John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), London (L.2981),

probably his sale, London, Motteux of Covent Garden, 16 May 1717;

acquired by an agent for Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris,

his sale Paris, 1741, possibly part of lot 40: 'Baccio BANDINELLI. Vingt, idem [Desseins]. Figures d Académies, & autres Etudes fièrement dessinées', acquired by Mariette (the drawing does not bear the Crozat numbering);

Pierre­ Jean Mariette (1694-1774), Paris (L.1852),

his sale, Paris, Basan, Catalogue Raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les Sciences et Arts, qui composoient le Cabinet de feu Mr Mariette.., 29 November 1775, possibly part of the lot 134 (Six feuilles d'Etudes de figure & têtes, à la plume, dont une figure d'Hercule de la touche la plus savante & la plus assurée), acquired either by Alexandre Joseph Paillet, (1734- 1814) or by Charles Philippe Campion de Tersan (1736-1819);

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L.2364, inscribed on the mount Baccio Bandinelli);

Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871-1946), Totnes, South Devon (L.153);

Private collection,

sale, London, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 9 April 1981, lot 74;

with P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. Ltd., London, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1982, no. 4, pl. 5;

with Daniel Katz Ltd., London;

with W. M, Brady & Co., Inc., New York, by 1998, Old Master Drawings, 1999, no. 2, reproduced,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Baccio Bandinelli 1493-1560: Drawings from British Collections, 1988, no. 27, reproduced p. 112 (catalogue by Roger Ward);

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 5 (entry by Rhoda Eitel-Porter);

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. 5;

Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini. Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy, 2014, p. 85, p. 180, no. 21 (entry by Daria Rose Foner), reproduced p. 181, p. 11 (detail);

New York, Nicholas Hall, Grey Matters, 2021, no. 15

R. Ward, Baccio Bandinelli as a Draughtsman, unpublished Ph.D. diss., Courtauld Institute, London 1982, p. 305, no. 224, reproduced fig. 113;

R. Ward, 'Observations on the Red Chalk Figure Studies of Baccio Bandinelli: Two Examples at Melbourne', Art Bulletin of Victoria, vol. 23, 1982, p. 26, 29, 37, no. 22, reproduced fig. 5;

J. Cox-Rearick, 'From Bandinelli to Bronzino: The Genesis of the Lamentation from the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo', Mitteilugen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol. 33, 1989, p. 56, reproduced fig. 18;

B. Sørensen, Gamle mestertegninger fra Sophus Larpents samling, exhib. cat., Olso, Nasjonalgalleriet, 1999, p. 202, reproduced p. 200;

N. Hegener, DIVI IACOBI EQUES. Selbsdarstellung in Werk des Florentiner Bildhauers Baccio Bandinelli, Berlin 2008, pp. 369-370, reproduced fig. 213 ;

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, 2013, p. 10, reproduced;

P. Rosenberg, Les Dessins de la collection Mariette, École italienne et espagnole, Paris 2019, vol. I, p. 90, no. 172, reproduced