Lot 39: Leonardo Corona (Murano 1561-1605 Venice)

Six drawings illustrating the Story of Psyche: Psyche receiving the Hommage of the People; The King consulting the Oracle of Apollo; Psyche discovering the Palace of Cupid; Cupid and Psyche; Psyche beseeching Pan in her search for Cupid; and Psyche asking for the help of Juno and Ceres
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and pink wash
each circa 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (130 x 113 mm.)

Zaccaria Sagredo (L. 2103a), his mount with inscriptions 'L. Corona' (recti) and 'SVn o:7', 'SVn o8', 'SVn o9', 'SVn o:10', 'SVn o:11' and 'SVn o:12' on the mount, and 'SVn o105', 'SVn o106' and 'SVn o109' on three backings.
H. Marignane, his mark (not in Lugt).

Similar drawings by Corona are illustrated in H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, New York, 1944, pls. CXXXIII-CXXXIV and in P. Bjurström, Italian Drawings, Stockholm, 1979, I, no. 35.