Lot 45: FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO

BOLOGNA 1504?5 - 1570 PARIS
AEOLUS CONFINING OR LIBERATING THE WINDS
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, within two brown ink framing lines and squared in black chalk;
bears old attribution in pen and ink lower centre: Bologne;
bears inscriptions on the reverse of the backing paper in pen and brown ink at the top: prisé... and ccci and numberings 57, and 70
279 by 171 mm

Primatice, Maître de Fontainebleau, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004-5, p. 302, no. 141, reproduced p. 301, fig. 141; p. 302, under no. 140 

Brigrand (circa 1588; bears his paraphe, verso, not in Lugt);
J.-J.  Feuchère (1807-1852), according to pencil annotation, verso (Primatice/ Cabinet de Feuchère),
possibly his sale, Paris, 8 March 1853, part of lot 142 ('Deux beaux dessins pour les Peintures de Fontainebleau');
Private collection, Paris