Lot 11: Giulio Clovio (Grisone 1498-1578 Rome)

Giulio Clovio (Grisone 1498-1578 Rome)
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Baptist
black chalk
8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.5 x 15.5 cm.)

New York, Gimpel and Wildenstein, The Complete Collection of Drawings Formerly Owned by the Duke of Rutland, [circa 1911], no. 73 (as attributed to Andrea del Sarto).

E.W. Rowlands, 'A Newly-Discovered Holy Family Drawing by Giulio Clovio', Master Drawings, XXIII-IV, no. 1, 1986, pp. 31-6, pl. 1.

J. Richardson, Sen. (L. 2183), his mount with associated shelfmark (L. 2983) and his attribution 'Andrea del Sarto.' (L. 2996). Further, with his extensive quotation from Vasari's Life of Andrea del Sarto and his inscription 'This was one of the last of the works of Andrea, for the seige [sic] of Florence was rais'd in 1530 in w.ch year he... The Original Picture at the Louvre, a Coppy of it at Fontainbleau [sic]. My Son did not see these in France as mention'd above, & where I was inform'd they were: ... he saw at Parma in the Palace of the Duke a very fine one; only the Back-Ground is alt[ered] there 'tis a Landscape, & in the sky two Angels are holding a Curtain. Figures all as big as the...'.
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, and by descent to
The Dukes of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Lincolnshire.

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