Lot 12: ATTRIBUTED TO POMPONIO AMALTEO

TWO CLASSICAL SOLDIERS ON HORSEBACK

6 7/8 by 8 3/4 in; 173 by 221 mm; a strip added to the left edge

Black chalk on blue paper;bears illegible inscription in brown ink, lower right

Amalteo was the pupil and son-in-law of Pordenone. The rearing horses are reminiscent of those in the fresco in Vittorio Veneto (formerly Ceneda) representing The Justice of Trajan, on which Amalteo collaborated with Pordenone circa 1534-1536. (1)

1. See C.E. Cohen, The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone, Between Language and Dialect, Cambridge 1996, vol. II, collaborative works 2, pp. 729-9, pls. 700-701