Guerra (Giovanni, circa 1540-1618). Scenes from the Life of the Pope, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper; a pentimento for the central figures hinged to the centre of the drawing, collector's mark to lower left with stamped initials EC (Emile Calando, Lugt 837); the pencil numbering of Emile Calando fils on the backing sheet '2154, H 2154', the drawing (not the pentimento) laid to a blue mount, 318 x 296 mm (12 1/2 x 11 5/8 ins) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Emile Louis Calando (1840-1898), Parisian collector (Lugt 837); Emile Pierre Victor Calando fils (1872-1953), photographer and collector, bears his numbering on the backing sheet in pencil: 2154, H 2154. In the Calando inventory as Attribué à Léonard de Vinci, bought in a sale 4 June 1875, lot 166; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 147; Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz; Sotheby's, London, 23 September 2021, Old Master and British Works on Paper, including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes, lot 26. The present drawing is very close in technique and style to two drawings by the artist held in the British Museum, Esther before Ahasuerus, and Scene from the Book of Esther (nos. 1975,0517.1 and 1975,0517.2), both featuring the same broad use of the pen, and elongated, elegant figures within an architectural setting.
Guerra (Giovanni, circa 1540-1618). Scenes from the Life of the Pope, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper; a pentimento for the central figures hinged to the centre of the drawing, collector's mark to lower left with stamped initials EC (Emile Calando, Lugt 837); the pencil numbering of Emile Calando fils on the backing sheet '2154, H 2154', the drawing (not the pentimento) laid to a blue mount, 318 x 296 mm (12 1/2 x 11 5/8 ins) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Emile Louis Calando (1840-1898), Parisian collector (Lugt 837); Emile Pierre Victor Calando fils (1872-1953), photographer and collector, bears his numbering on the backing sheet in pencil: 2154, H 2154. In the Calando inventory as Attribué à Léonard de Vinci, bought in a sale 4 June 1875, lot 166; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 147; Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz; Sotheby's, London, 23 September 2021, Old Master and British Works on Paper, including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes, lot 26. The present drawing is very close in technique and style to two drawings by the artist held in the British Museum, Esther before Ahasuerus, and Scene from the Book of Esther (nos. 1975,0517.1 and 1975,0517.2), both featuring the same broad use of the pen, and elongated, elegant figures within an architectural setting.
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