Old Master Drawings
Catalogue Information: 244 lots with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: ATTRIBUTED TO HANS CHRISTOPH STIMMER 1549 - AFTER 1577 SCHAFFHAUSEN TWO SWORDSMEN FIGHTING
inscribed, partially illegibly: I S CHA 8033ax (?)pen and black ink over black chalkCATALOGUE NOTEHans Christian Stimmer, the brother of Tobias, is known only as a maker of woodcut blocks (formschneider). Although his drawing style remains undefined [...more]
Lot 2: SOUTH GERMAN SCHOOL, MID-16TH CENTURY MOSES
bears initials in black chalk, verso: R Rpen and black ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk, pricked for transferCATALOGUE NOTEThis intriguing drawing is very close in style to Holbein, particularly in the powerful, mannered handling of the f [...more]
Lot 3: MAERTEN DE VOS ANTWERP 1532 - 1603 PETER BAPTIZISES THE CENTURION CORNELIUS
bears old numbering on the verso: no.16pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, a separate strip of paper joined at the rightCATALOGUE NOTEStylistically, this compositional drawing can be compared with one of Gideon orderi [...more]
Lot 4: f - ARENT VAN BOLTEN ZWOLLE CIRCA 1573 - BEFORE 1633 LEEUWARDEN A WITCH ADMIRING HERSELF IN A
f - ARENT VAN BOLTEN ZWOLLE CIRCA 1573 - BEFORE 1633 LEEUWARDEN A WITCH ADMIRING HERSELF IN A MIRRORpen and brown ink and washCATALOGUE NOTEAlmost all of Van Bolten's known drawings are contained in one album of 425 studies, now in the British Museum [...more]
Lot 5: SILESIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY THE HOLY FAMILY WITH THE INFANT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
pen and black ink and grey wash, heightened with whiteCATALOGUE NOTEDr Jacek Tylicki has compared this drawing with the work of David Heidenreich, who was active in Freiburg and Wroclaw (see H. Geissler, Zeichnung in Deutschland...1540-1640, exhibiti [...more]
