LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and white chalk

Measurements:

7.20 in. (18.30 cm.) (height) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, 1938, no. 416. Bristol, Art Gallery, Treasures from West Country Collections, 1967 (no catalogue). Edinburgh, Festival Society, The Scottish Art Council, Italian 17th Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1972, no. 8 (catlogue by A. Blunt).

Literature:

G. Briganti, Pietro da Cortona o della pittura barocca, Florence, 1962, p. 289 (2nd edn. ed. by L. Laureati and L. Trezzani, Florence, 1982, p. 275). M. Campbell, Pietro da Cortona at the Pitti Palace. A Study of the Planetary Rooms and Related Projects, Princeton, 1977, no. 90. J. Halloway, ‘Italian Seventeenth-Century Drawings from British Private Collections’, The Burlington Magazine, CXIV, no. 835, 1972, p. 730. A. Morandotti, 'Un disegno di Pietro da Cortona per la Sala di Apollo in Palazzo Pitti', in M. Di Giampaolo, ed., Dal disegno all'opera compiuta, Perugia, 1992, pp. 158, 160, n. 18. S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Pietro da Cortona e il disegno, exhib. cat., Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, 1998, p. 162, under no. 8.19. J.M. Merz, Pietro da Cortona und sein Kreis: die Zeichnungen in Düsseldorf, Berlin, 2005, p. 248, under no. 76.

Provenance:

Nathaniel Hone, London (1718-1784) (L. 2793). Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792) (L. 2364); Harry Phillips, London, 5-26 March 1798, unidentified lot. Sir John Chichester (ca.1752–1808). Rev. John Sanford (1777-1855), and by descent to Field-Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Lord Methuen, Corsham Court (1732-1795); Christie's, London, 14 May 1920, lot 1; subsequently bought back by the Hon. Paul Ayshford Methuen, R.A., F.S.A., 4th Lord Methuen, Corsham Court (1886-1974); Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1996, lot 15.