Prospero Antichi

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Prospero Antichi

-1599

Studies of Leda and the Swan and of a Seated Figure, over Sketch of a Faun Seen From the Back(?). Verso: Half-length Figure of a Youth, Two Male Heads, and a Tree-trunk(?)

ca. 1565-1585

Pen and brown ink, black and red chalks; verso: black and red chalks.

8 11/16 x 5 3/4 inches (221 x 146 mm)

Thaw Collection.

1976.45

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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Domenico Beccafumi, Siena 1484-1551 Siena, and Marco Pino, ca. 1525-ca.1587.

Provenance:

George Hibbert, London (see Lugt 2849); John Barnard, London (see Lugt 1419, 1420); Coghlan Briscoe, Dublin, 1928 (see Lugt S. 347c); Dr. William A. Crofton, London, 1940; sale, London, Christie's, 17 July 1959, p. 59 of lot 95; Thos. Agnew and Sons, London; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York.

Associated names:

Beccafumi, Domenico, 1486-1551, Formerly attributed to.
Pino, Marco, approximately 1525-approximately 1587, Formerly attributed to.
Hibbert, George, 1757-1837, former owner.
Barnard, John, 1709-1784, former owner.
Briscoe, Coghlan, former owner.
Crofton, William A., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Liphart-Rathshoff 1935, 64, 181-84 (as Beccafumi); Sanminiatelli 1957, 405 (as Beccafumi); London 1965, 18, no. 34 (as Beccafumi); Sanminiatelli 1957, 405 (as Beccafumi); Sanminiatelli 1967, 186, note 2, 189, note 8 (as Marco Pino); New York and elsewhere 1975-76, 26-27, no. 7 (as Beccafumi); Byam Shaw 1983, 102-05; (as Beccafumi?); Gordley 1988, 328-47 (as Beccafumi workshop); De Marchi, in Siena 1990, 412-25, 423, note 14 (as after Beccafumi; Elen 1995, 332-36 (as after Beccafumi).
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 2, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 7, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 248.

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