Workshop of Gianlorenzo Bernini
Gianlorenzo Bernini sketching
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Workshop of Gianlorenzo Bernini
Naples 1598–1680 Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini sketching
oil on canvas
unframed: 48.4 x 37.8 cm.; 19 x 14⅞ in.
framed: 65.9 x 55.1 cm.; 26 x 21¾ in.
Sackville Hamilton PC (1732–1818), Dublin;
Thence by descent to Charles Patrick Sackville Hamilton (b. 1949), North Yorkshire;
By whom sold anonymously, York, Duggleby Stephenson, 6 December 2024, lot 6160 (as after Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 18th century, possibly by Sackville Hamilton himself);
Where acquired by the present owner.
This composition relates closely to Gianlorenzo Bernini's Self-portrait while drawing in the Koelliker Collection, Milan.1 The pentimenti besides the figure's proper left thumb and along the top of his drawing sheet may be the result of a pupil responding to instructions in Bernini's workshop.
We are grateful to Dott. Francesco Petrucci for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
1 Inv. no. LK0584; oil on canvas, 47 x 38.7 cm.; F. Petrucci, Bernini pittore: dal disegno al "maraviglioso composto", Rome 2006, p. 311, no. 5, reproduced.
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