Lot 52: AGOSTINO CARRACCI

BOLOGNA 1557 - 1602 PARMA
RECTO: NINE STUDIES OF HEADS AND A PARTIAL STUDY OF A TORSO;
VERSO: FIGURE STUDIES, PROBABLY FOR THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND TWO OTHER STUDIES OF HEADS
Pen and brown ink (recto);
pen and brown ink over red chalk, within partial brown ink framing lines (verso)
202 by 270 mm; 8 by 10 5/8 in

London, Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino and Annibale Carracci, collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence..., 1836, no. 82 (as Annibale Carracci);
Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Mostra dei Carracci, Disegni, 1956, no. 77, reproduced pl. 38 (as Agostino);
Newcastle upon Tyne, The Hatton Gallery, The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, 1961, no. 28 (as Agostino)

W.Y. Ottley, The Italian School of Design, 1823, p. 66 (as Annibale);
Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 86 (as Annibale);
R. Wittkower, The Drawings of the Carracci...at Windsor Castle, London 1952, p. 123, in note to Agostino's Caricatures, as lost;
P.A. Tomory, The Ellesmere Collection, Leicester Museum, 1954, no. 33, reproduced pl. IX (as Agostino)

William Young Ottley;
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445);
Samuel Woodburn, from whom bought by
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (L.2710b), by descent to the 5th Earl of Ellesmere, 6th Duke of Sutherland,
his sale, London, Sotheby's, The Ellesmere Collection, 11 July 1972, lot 26, bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London;
Denys Sutton, London,
by inheritance to the present owner