Lot 110: ATTRIBUTED TO GEOFFROY DUMONSTIER

ATTRIBUTED TO GEOFFROY DUMONSTIER DIED PARIS 1573 SOLDIERS BURYING TWO DEAD MEN, IN THE BACKGROUND A LANDSCAPE WITH ANCIENT BUILDINGS Pen and brown ink and wash, within brown ink framing lines, all four corners cut; bears pencil attribution, verso : Mantegna, and numberings 414 and 917 264 by 210 mm

Graf Sternberg-Manderscheid'sche Samlg/catno I:O.V.(inscription on the verso in pen and brown ink);
bears unidentified collector's mark, lower right;
M. Marignane (L.1872);
Hubert de Marignane (bears his mark, not in Lugt );

Geoffroy Dumonstier, son of Jean Dumonstier, was one of Rosso's assistants at Fontainbleau between 1537 and 1540; the style of the present drawing shows the Italian master's influence. For examples of his drawings, see the exhibition catalogue L'École de Fontainebleau, Paris, Grand Palais, 1972, pp. 110-112.