OMNP highlights select lots from today’s sale of Old Master drawings at Sotheby’s New York. Highlights include a preparatory sketch by the famous sculptor Giambologna who rarely worked from drawings,  fantastical beasts of the underworld by Il Volterrano (lot 20) the efficient use of penmark by Tiepolo  in a preparatory drawing for an altarpiece (lot 92),  architectural capriccio by Francesco Guardi (lot 98), and the faceless charachters marching in a funeral procession by Giovanni Battista Ricci (lot 11), which looks like while unrelated, look like a precursor to Goya’s nightmarish visions. For more information, check out the complete sales catalogue.

LOT 11
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BATTISTA RICCI
Novara 1537 – 1627 Rome
RECTO: A FUNERAL PROCESSION;
VERSO: VARIOUS STUDIES FOR AN ANNUNCIATION
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk (recto and verso);numbered in brown ink, recto: 12
10 3/4 by 16 1/2 in; 271 by 420 mm
ESTIMATE 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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LOT 16
PROPERTY FROM THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER COLLECTIONS
ATTRIBUTED TO GIAMBOLOGNA
Douai 1529 – 1608 Florence
STUDY FOR A SCULPTURE OF NEPTUNE
Black chalk, a fragment of a design in black chalk, verso;numbered in black chalk, verso: 16 / 15bears old attribution in brown ink, lower right: Juianno da Boulogne / a Bologne – and numbering in brown ink at upper left of old backing sheet: N. 40=
16 1/4 by 7 3/4 in, 415 by 195 mm
ESTIMATE 10,000 – 20,000 USD

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LOT 17
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
FEDERICO ZUCCARO
Sant’ Angelo in Vado, Marches 1540/42 – 1609 Ancona
SUBMISSION OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK BARBAROSSA TO POPE ALEXANDER III
Pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash over traces of black chalk and slight traces of red chalk.
10 5/8 by 16 1/2 in; 270 by 420 mm
ESTIMATE 120,000 – 160,000 USD

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LOT 20
BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO
Volterra 1611 – 1689 Florence
DEVILS DRAGGING DAMNED SOULS TO HELL
Black chalk, with touches of red chalk. A horizontal dividing line and oval framing lines drawn in black chalk, and the sheet trimmed to an oval.
Reddened on the verso
10 1/8 by 14 1/2 in; 256 by 370 mm
ESTIMATE 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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LOT 29
CARLO MARCHIONNI
Rome 1702 – 1786
DOUBLE-SIDED SHEET WITH A CARICATURE OF AN ARTIST AND STUDIES FOR A CHIMNEY-PIECE IN VILLA ALBANI
Pen and brown ink (recto and verso)
7 3/16 by 7 3/16 in; 186 by 185 mm (sight size)
ESTIMATE 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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LOT 38
PROPERTY FROM THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER COLLECTIONS
GIOVANNI BATTISTA FOGGINI
Florence 1652 – 1725
DESIGN FOR THE RELIQUARY OF S. SIGISMONDO
18 3/4 by 12 in; 479 by 302 mm
ESTIMATE 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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LOT 42
JACOPO STRADA
Mantua circa 1515 – 1588 Vienna
DESIGN FOR AN ELABORATE SAUCE BOAT COVERED WITH A SEATED LION
Pen and brown ink and wash with touches of gray-brown wash
15 5/8 by 11 in; 397 by 279 mm
ESTIMATE 20,000 – 30,000 USD

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LOT 53
JACOPO STRADA
Mantua circa 1515 – 1588 Vienna
DESIGN FOR A COVERED SAUCE BOAT WITH SPHINX
Pen and brown ink and wash
15 3/4 by 10 3/4 in; 400 by 273 mm
ESTIMATE 20,000 – 30,000 USD

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LOT 63
GERMAN SCHOOL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
THE TABLE OF CEBES
Pen and brown ink;numbered, top left: 3
5 3/4 by 7 3/8 in; 145 by 187 mm
Early 17th Century

ESTIMATE 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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LOT 68
ATTRIBUTED TO REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN
Leiden 1606 – 1669 Amsterdam
TWO STUDIES OF A WOMAN ASLEEP ON A PILLOW
Pen and brown ink
5 by 7 7/8 in; 126 by 195 mm
ESTIMATE 15,000 – 20,000 USD

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LOT 82
FRENCH SCHOOL, MID 18TH CENTURY
A SCENE OF WITCHCRAFT: A MAGICIAN CASTING A SPELL AT THE LEFT, ANOTHER STANDING AT THE CENTER, A PROCESSION OF
FIGURES IN THE BACKGROUND
Red chalk and pale red wash
10 9/16 by 17 5/16 in; 270 by 440 mm
ESTIMATE 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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LOT 83
FRENCH SCHOOL, MID 18TH CENTURY
A SCENE OF WITCHCRAFT: A DRAGON ON A SARCOPHAGUS, OTHER CREATURES AROUND IT, AN OWL IN THE CORNER
Red chalk and pale red wash
10 7/16 by 17 5/16 in; 270 by 440 mm
ESTIMATE 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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LOT 85
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER
Paris 1703 – 1770
THE NATIVITY
Pen and brown and black ink and red and brown wash, within black ink framing lines;signed and dated in gray ink, lower left: F Boucher 1757
9 5/8 by 6 3/4 in; 244 by 171 mm
ESTIMATE 45,000 – 60,000 USD

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LOT 92
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
Venice 1696 – 1770 Madrid
THE MARTYRDOM OF ST SEBASTIAN
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk within brown ink framing lines
20 1/4 by 11 5/8 in; 515 by 295 mm
ESTIMATE 140,000 – 180,000 USD

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LOT 94
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727 – 1804
MOSES AND AARON
Signed in pen and brown ink: Dom.co Tiepolo f
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash
7 11/16 by 10 13/16 in; 195 by 275 mm
ESTIMATE 12,000 – 15,000 USD

LOT 95
PROPERTY OF GORDON GETTY
GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO
Venice 1697 – 1768
AN ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO WITH A PAVILION AND A RUINED ARCADE ON THE WATER’S EDGE
Signed or bears signature below the framing line: Antonio Canal del.
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
12 1/4 by 17 1/4 in.; 305 by 438 mm
ESTIMATE 250,000 – 350,000 USD

LOT 98
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE COUNT AND COUNTESS GUY DE BOISROUVRAY, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE FRANçOISXAVIER
BAGNOUD ASSOCIATION
FRANCESCO GUARDI
Venice 1712 – 1793
AN ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk
9 5/16 by 13 15/16 in; 237 by 354 mm
ESTIMATE 50,000 – 70,000 USD

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LOT 99
PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER R.A.
London 1775 – 1851
RHODES
Watercolor over pencil heightened with bodycolor, pen and red ink and scratching out
13 by 20.5 cm.; 5 1/8 by 8 1/8 in
5 by 8 in.; 128 by 200 mm
ESTIMATE 70,000 – 90,000 USD

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LOT 105
PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER R.A.
London 1775 – 1851
VIEW OF HAMPTON COURT, HEREFORDSHIRE
Watercolor over pencil with scratching out
13 7/8 by 18 in; 356 by 46 mm
ESTIMATE 12,000 – 18,000 USD

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LOT 136
JEAN JACQUES FRANÇOIS LE BARBIER
Rouen 1738 – 1826 Paris
A GLADIATOR HOLDING AN AXE
black chalk
22 1/2 by 16 in; 573 by 405 mm;
ESTIMATE 5,000 – 7,000 USD