Il Volterrano

Lot 40: BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO

Name: BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 3b24aed71d

Est: £10,000 GBP - £15,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 06, 2010

Item Overview

Description

BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO VOLTERRA 1611 - 1689 FLORENCE ESTHER BEFORE AHASUERUS Red chalk, the upper right corner made up 231 by 263 mm

Artist or Maker

Il Volterrano

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1972, lot 32;
with Katrin Bellinger, Munich, from whom bought by the present owner

Notes

According to Francesca Baldassari's recent list of paintings by Volterrano, no painting of this subject is known.υ1 This must, however, be an early compositional study, perhaps for a painting that was never completed.

1. F. Baldassari, La Pittura del Seicento a Firenze, indici degli artisti e delle loro opere, Milan 2009, pp. 394-7

Auction Details

Master Drawings from a Distinguished European Collection

Sotheby's

July 06, 2010, 10:00 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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