The
Italian Renaissance is represented by early-sixteenth-century studies of eagles
($4,000-6,000); Christ’s Charge to Peter
from the circle of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, based on one of Raphael’s
cartoons painted as designs for tapesties ($5,000-8,000);
and Ludovico Carracci’s St. Luke, red chalk, circa 1585-88 ($8,000-12,000).
Lot 15: Ludovico Carracci, St. Luke, red chalk, circa 1585-88.
Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
and Ludovico Carracci’s St. Luke, red chalk, circa 1585-88 ($8,000-12,000).
Baroque works of note include The Holy Spirit Appearing to St. Gregory,
red chalk, late 1640s, by Il Guercino, offered at $8,000 to $12,000; and Scenes from the Battle of Vienna: A Pair,
pen and wash, circa 1685, by Francesco Monti, Il Brescianino—expected to bring $10,000
to $15,000. Pietro Antonio Novelli’s A
Young Woman Washing Linen, pen and ink, is estimated at $15,000 to $20,000.
A
collection of nineteenth-century French works on paper from the estate of the
esteemed New York art dealer Eric Carlson, who specialized in French academic
and realist drawings, complements the offerings of earlier works. Highlights
from the selection are
Of particular note is an 1833 ink, wash and pencil study by Eugène Delacroix ($3,000-5,000). The prepatory work was created for the allegorical decorations of the Salon du Roi in the Palais Bourbon in Paris—his first large-scale government commission.
Additional French works include two circa-1820 pencil drawings by Delacroix, apparently loosely based on figures in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, offered at $7,000 to $10,000. Laurent de la Hyre’s black chalk and pencil preparatory drawing St. Peter Healing the Sick, for his 1635 painting May de Notre Dame, is available at $15,000 to $20,000.
Lot 127: Théodore Géricault, Le Giaour, pen, ink & pencil, 1820.
Property from the Eric Carlson Irrevocable Trust. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.
Théodore
Géricault’s prepartory drawing for the same-titled lithograph La Giaour, pen, ink and pencil, 1820
($7,000-10,000); Notre Dame and the Île
de la Cité, Paris, watercolor, 1864, by
Louis-Adolphe Hervier ($2,000-3,000); and an 1859 color pastel work A Landscape at Dusk with Rolling Hills
by Joseph Alfred Belelt du Poisat ($1,000-1,500). Of particular note is an 1833 ink, wash and pencil study by Eugène Delacroix ($3,000-5,000). The prepatory work was created for the allegorical decorations of the Salon du Roi in the Palais Bourbon in Paris—his first large-scale government commission.
Additional French works include two circa-1820 pencil drawings by Delacroix, apparently loosely based on figures in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, offered at $7,000 to $10,000. Laurent de la Hyre’s black chalk and pencil preparatory drawing St. Peter Healing the Sick, for his 1635 painting May de Notre Dame, is available at $15,000 to $20,000.
Lot 222: Henri-Edmond Cross, The Sower, watercolor & pencil,
circa 1890. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000.
Henri-Edmond Cross’s pointalist watercolor The Sower, circa 1890, is expected to bring $15,000 to $20,000. Dutch, Flemish, German and English draughtsmen round out the stellar offering.
Exhibition
opening in New York City October 25. The complete catalogue and bidding
information is available at swanngalleries.com and on the Swann Galleries App.
Captions:
Auction date: Tuesday, November 5, at 1:30 am