Property from the Estate of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island
Antwerp School, circa 1535-40
Recto: Seven Studies of Heads with Headdresses; Verso: Landscape with a Village, Figures and Cattle
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Estate of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island
Antwerp School, circa 1535-40
Recto: Seven Studies of Heads with Headdresses
Verso: Landscape with a Village, Figures and Cattle
Pen and brown ink (recto and verso);
illegibly inscribed or numbered, lower left
127 by 86 mm; 5 by 3⅜ in.
Léon Leclère, called Tristan Klingsor (1874-1966), Paris,
thence by family descent until sale, Paris, Ader, 21 March 2001, lot 67 (as Flemish School, early 16th Century)
with Bob P. Haboldt, New York/Paris (catalogue 2001-02, no. 1, as Leiden School 1535-40),
where acquired by Ambassador Middendorf in March 2002
Dr. Peter van den Brink has kindly informed us that he believes the head studies on this outstanding, early sketchbook page were drawn from life, rather than copied from an earlier painting, as would often be the case in such sheets. He also points out that in overall approach, the drawing can be compared with the somewhat earlier sheet of studies of heads by Jan de Beer, in the British Museum.1 The head types would seem, though, to be closer to the works of artists of the following generation, such as the Master of Paul and Barnabas, or the Brunswick Monogrammist. Such sheets of studies are rare from this period.
1.London, British Museum, inv. 1886,0706.7
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