Lot 37: FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO

BOLOGNA 1504?5 - 1570 PARIS
AN ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF PRUDENCE
Red lead oxide and red wash, heightened with white, squared in black chalk for transfer;
bears traces of an inscription in pen and brown ink at the lower margin, cut;
bears Sagredo numbering on the verso in pen and brown ink: S.L. n.υo34
218 by 139 mm

W. McAllister Johnson, 'Primaticcio' s Prudence Recovered', Master Drawings, vol. 11, no. 3 (1973), p. 268, reproduced pl. 22;
S. Béguin and M. Di Giampaolo, Maestri emiliani del secondo cinquecento, Florence 1979, pp. 18, 19; 
S. Béguin, 'Contributo allo studio dei disegni del Primaticcio', Bollettino d' Arte, vol. 67, no. 15 (1982), p. 32;
Idem., 'I pittori bolognese a Fontainebleau', in V. Fortunati Pietrantonio, Pittura bolognese del '500, Bologna 1986, p. 243;
Idem., 'Projets bellifontains', Dal Disegno all'opera compiuta, Actes du Colloque (Torgiano, Fondazione Longarotti, 1987), Perugia 1992, pp. 89-98;
E. Brugerolles and D. Guillet, Le dessin en France au XVIe siècle. Dessins et miniatures de L'École des Beaux-Arts, exhib. cat., Paris, École national supérieure des Beaux-Arts, et al., 1994-95, p. 54, under no. 19;
S. Folds McCullagh and L. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1997, p. 201, under no. 258; 
S. Béguin, 'L' École de Fontainebleau: des Histoires anciennes ...et modernes', Atelier de la Renaissance, 1998, p. 278, reproduced fig. 4;
Disegni da una grande collezione. Antiche raccolte estensi dal Louvre e dalla Galleria di Modena, exhib. cat., Sassuolo, Palazzo Ducale, 1998, p. 82, under no. 23;
Dessins italiens du musée Condé à Chantilly, III, Vénétie, Lombardie, Pièmont, Emilie, XVe-XVIe siècle, exhib. cat., Chantilly, Musée Condé, 1998-99, p. 122; p. 123, under no. 34;
Primatice Maître de Fontainebleau, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004-5, pp. 256-57; p. 259, note 19; p. 260, and p. 261, under no. 115; p. 263, under no. 116

 

From the Sagredo album (with numbering, see above), the provenance of which is as follows:
Doge Nicolò Sagredo, Venice, by circa 1654,
his brother, Stefano Sagredo, Venice,
his nephew, Zaccaria Sagredo,
his wife, Cecilia Sagredo, until sold, circa 1743;
Jean-Jaques de Boissieu (1736-1810),
thence by descent until sale, Lyon, 1919;
European private collection,
thence by descent to the present owner