LOT DETAILS

Materials:

point of the brush and grey wash, pen and brown ink heightened with white, on blue paper

Measurements:

13.31 in. (33.80 cm.) (height) by 8.86 in. (22.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscription 'Gaudencio' and 'Gaudenzio da [.]' and with illegible inscription (verso)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Italian Art, 1930, no. 704. Venice, Fondazione Cini, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 7 (catalogue by Julien Stock).

Literature:

A Brief Chronological Description of a Collection of Original Drawings and Sketches by the Old Masters of the different Schools of Europe […] formed by the late Mr. William Mayor of Bayswater Hill, London, 1875, no. 11 (as ‘Donato Lazzari, detto Bramante d’Urbino’). T. Borenius, 'Two unpublished North Italian Drawings', The Burlington Magazine, XXIX, 1916, p. 271, fig. B. F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes, Amsterdam, 1921, p. 155, under no. 874. T. Borenius, The Vasari Society. Second Series, VII, 1926, no. 5, ill. Lord Balniel and K. Clark, A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Art, London, 1931, p. 247. A.E. Popham, Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, 1930, London, 1931, no. 180, pl. CLIII. L. Puppi, Bartolomeo Montagna, 1962, p. 147, fig. 166. T. Pignatti, I disegni dei maestri, II, La scuola veneta, 1970, p. 67, fig. 9. D. Cordellier in L'Oeil du connaisseur. Hommage à Philip Pouncey. Dessins italiens du Louvre, exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, 1992, p. 40, under no. 1. N. Schwed, L'Oeil et la passion. Dessins italiens de la Renaissance dans les collections privées françaises, exhib. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2011, p. 221, under no. 38, n. 7.

Provenance:

William Mayor (d. 1874), London (L. 2799). Sir Edward John Poynter, Bt., P.R.A. (1836-1919), London (L. 874); Sotheby's, London, 24 April 1918, lot 93 (£960 to Agnews, for Viscount Lascelles). Henry George Charles Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), and by descent to the present owner.