Lot n° 22
Estimation :
5000 - 6000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 6 350EUR
Ecole FLORENTINE du XVIème siècle:
STUDY BASED ON A SCULPTURE OF A THIEF FIGURE.
Black pencil, later retouching with graphite.
27.5 x 18 cm.
Many stains, wetnesses, epidermides.
This beautiful study of the naked man's figure was carried out on the basis of a sculpture (we notice the right arm cut at the height of the elbow in particular), and probably more precisely on the basis of a bas-relief, if we take into account the shading of the body on the background of the paper. It could be a figure from a Crucifixion, by a Florentine artist influenced by Michelangelo and Bandinelli. The shading hatches on the bottom of the paper are placed by a left-handed person (the movement goes from bottom right to top left), but the rest of the drawing is done by a right-handed person. Could it be an ambidextrous artist? It is difficult to decide. As a left-handed person, one can think of Raffaello da Montelupo, but the drawings we know of this artist are made with pen and brown ink.
The style also indicates an influence of Bronzino (see for example the crossed legs of the Dresden Museum, in The drawings of Bronzino, C.C.
Bambach, J. Cox-Rearick, G.R. Goldner, 2010, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 27).
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