Joseph Nollekens

Lot 565: JOSEPH NOLLEKENS

Name: JOSEPH NOLLEKENS
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 69909e435f

Est: $5,000 USD - $8,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 29, 2010

Item Overview

Description

A GROUP OF SKETCHBOOK PAGES WITH STUDIES AFTER 16TH CENTURY FLORENTINE MASTERS

Dimensions

All circa 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 in; 166 by 113 mm (19)

Artist or Maker

Joseph Nollekens

Medium

All black chalk, one inscribed in brown ink: St Peters

Literature

After Michelangelo's Pietà:
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823): a prolific draughtsman', in Dessins de Sculpteurs I, Troisièmes Rencontres Internationales du Salon du Dessin, Paris 2008, p. 104, illustrated p. 178, fig. 3;
The three drawings after Bandinelli's Hercules-Cacus Group are shortly to be published:
V. Krahn, Baccio Bandinelli, Büste eines jungen Mannes, Berlin 2009

Provenance

Probably Nollekens' Estate sale, London, Evan's, 4-5 December 1823, as part of lots 232-262;
probably Mrs Russell (neé Palmer) of Curzon Street, London,
by whom sold, London, Christie's, 20-22 March 1847, as part of lots 212-262;
with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased

Notes

Including figures taken from Andrea del Sarto's fresco in the Chiostro allo Scalzo, Florence, Salviati's painting Artemisia mourning for Mausolus in the Uffizi, Florence, and Michelangelo's sculptures of the Pietà and the Deposition. See also note to lot 562.

Auction Details

Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

Sotheby's

January 29, 2010, 10:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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