Property from an Important Private Collection
Giuseppe Bottani
Two studies of a male figure lying on a bed, and a separate study of his feet
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Giuseppe Bottani
Cremona 1717–1784 Mantua
Two studies of a male figure lying on a bed, and a separate study of his feet
red chalk heightened with white chalk, top left figure squared for transfer in black chalk
259 by 413 mm
Herbert List (1903-1975), Munich (L.4063);
Armando Neermann, London;
Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz;
With Katrin Bellinger, Kunsthandel, Italian Drawings 1500-1800, 1999, no. 24, reproduced,
where acquired by the present owner in 2002
P. Dreyer, Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16-18. Jahrhunderts. exhib. cat., Munich 1977, p. 240, no. 111, reproduced (as Pompeo Girolamo Batoni)
This drawing was first published in the Ratjen Collection exhibition catalogue in 1977, as a study by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787). The attribution to Bottani was confirmed in the 1980s by Edgar Peters Bowron and Stefano Susino, when the sheet was still in the Ratjen collection.1
1.See Provenance: Katrin Bellinger, 1999, notes 3, 4
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