LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red lead oxide and red wash, heightened with white, squared in black chalk for transfer

Measurements:

8.58 in. (21.80 cm.) (height) by 5.47 in. (13.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears traces of an inscription in pen and brown ink at the lower margin, cut; bears Sagredo numbering on the verso in pen and brown ink: S.L. n.o34

Literature:

W. McAllister Johnson, 'Primaticcio' s Prudence Recovered', Master Drawings, vol. 11, no. 3 (1973), p. 268, reproduced pl. 22; S. Béguin and M. Di Giampaolo, Maestri emiliani del secondo cinquecento, Florence 1979, pp. 18, 19; S. Béguin, 'Contributo allo studio dei disegni del Primaticcio', Bollettino d' Arte, vol. 67, no. 15 (1982), p. 32; Idem., 'I pittori bolognese a Fontainebleau', in V. Fortunati Pietrantonio, Pittura bolognese del '500, Bologna 1986, p. 243; Idem., 'Projets bellifontains', Dal Disegno all'opera compiuta, Actes du Colloque (Torgiano, Fondazione Longarotti, 1987), Perugia 1992, pp. 89-98; E. Brugerolles and D. Guillet, Le dessin en France au XVIe siècle. Dessins et miniatures de L'École des Beaux-Arts, exhib. cat., Paris, École national supérieure des Beaux-Arts, et al., 1994-95, p. 54, under no. 19; S. Folds McCullagh and L. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1997, p. 201, under no. 258; S. Béguin, 'L' École de Fontainebleau: des Histoires anciennes ...et modernes', Atelier de la Renaissance, 1998, p. 278, reproduced fig. 4; Disegni da una grande collezione. Antiche raccolte estensi dal Louvre e dalla Galleria di Modena, exhib. cat., Sassuolo, Palazzo Ducale, 1998, p. 82, under no. 23; Dessins italiens du musée Condé à Chantilly, III, Vénétie, Lombardie, Pièmont, Emilie, XVe-XVIe siècle, exhib. cat., Chantilly, Musée Condé, 1998-99, p. 122; p. 123, under no. 34; Primatice Maître de Fontainebleau, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004-5, pp. 256-57; p. 259, note 19; p. 260, and p. 261, under no. 115; p. 263, under no. 116

Provenance:

From the Sagredo album (with numbering, see above), the provenance of which is as follows:; Doge Nicolò Sagredo, Venice, by circa 1654; his brother, Stefano Sagredo, Venice; his nephew, Zaccaria Sagredo; his wife, Cecilia Sagredo, until sold, circa 1743; Jean-Jaques de Boissieu (1736-1810); thence by descent until sale, Lyon, 1919; European private collection; thence by descent to the present owner;