Lot 50: Circle of Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna 1504-1570 Paris)

Circle of Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna 1504-1570 Paris)
Ulysses stealing Helio's cattle
red chalk heightened with white on pink prepared paper
9½ x 12 7/8 in. (24.2 x 32.7 cm.)

Brunet (according to the Woodburn sale catalogue).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364), possibly with his inscription on the mount '...The storm.../The companions of Ulysses killing/the oxen of the Sun.'
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
Samuel Woodburn; Christie's, 6 June 1860, part of lot 638 (£5 10s to Clement; as 'Ulysses binding his crew; the crew of Ulysses carrying off the oxen of Apollo; and another from the same history; painted at Fontainebleau - red chalk, From the Collections of Brunet, Sir J. Reynolds, &c.;')

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Circle of Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna 1504-1570 Paris)
Ulysses stealing Helio's cattle
red chalk heightened with white on pink prepared paper
9½ x 12 7/8 in. (24.2 x 32.7 cm.)