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Lot 44: The Circumcision

Est: £2,000 GBP - £3,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 03, 2007

Item Overview

Description

Giovanni Baglione (Rome 1571-1644) The Circumcision with illegible inscription ( verso ) red chalk, pen and brown ink, fragmentary watermark device, minor losses 5 5/8 x 4¼ in. (142 x 108 mm.)

Artist or Maker

Provenance

The Double-Numbering Collector, with his numbers '34. trentaquattro.'.

Notes

The searching, wiry line of this drawing can be compared to a study now in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, made in preparation for Baglione's fresco Birth of the Virgin painted in the apse of S. Maria dell'Orto, Rome, and completed in 1598 (M. Smith O'Neil, 'Cavaliere Giovanni Baglione: "Il Modo Eccellente di Disegnare"', Master Drawings, XXXVI (1998), p. 367, fig. 14).

Auction Details

Old Master and 19th Century Drawings

by
Christie's
July 03, 2007, 12:00 PM EST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK