Lot 2: Attributed to Giulio Clovio (Grisone 1498-1578 Rome)

Attributed to Giulio Clovio (Grisone 1498-1578 Rome)
A bacchanal of children, after Michelangelo
red chalk, watermark hand
11 x 15¾ in. (279 x 400 mm.)

A. Tardieu (L. 183b).
Nikos Dhikeos, his mark (not in Lugt).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1996, lot 88.

After the drawing by Michelangelo at Windsor (inv. 12777; A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian drawings of the XV and XVI centuries, London, 1949, no. 431, pl. 28). The attribution was proposed by Dr. Paul Joannides in 1996, who pointed out that the watermark is similar to one on a Michelangelo drawing of circa 1550 in the Pierpont Morgan Library.