$474
Lot of Eight Old Master Drawings: School of Bernard Picart (French, 1673-1733), Goat Studies, graphite and white chalk on blue paper; After Cornelis van Poelenburgh (Dutch, 1586-1667), Bathers, graphite and wash on laid paper; Continental School, 17th/18th Century, Hagar and Ishmael, ink and wash on laid paper; British or Dutch School, 18th/19th Century, Profile of a Man, graphite on laid paper; Central European School, 18th Century, Genre Scene, ink on laid paper; Continental School, 18th Century, Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well , graphite on laid paper with an initialed orb watermark; Manner of Marco Ricci (Italian, 1676-1729), Landscape with Travelers , ink on paper; and School of Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton (Flemish, 1668-1754), Still Life with Game , conte crayon on laid paper. Many identified in inscriptions on the works or their mounts. Sheet sizes to 9 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (23.7 x 36.5 cm), three matted, all unframed. Condition: Toning, staining, creasing, some with repairs and/or losses. Goat with skinning in l.l. quadrant and sheet is glued to laid paper along top edge; Bathers with minor paper losses in l.l. quadrant along edge, Hagar cloth tape hinged to backing mat; Profile with horizontal center crease; Genre backed to laid paper and with restored tear approx. 5 3/4 in.; Rebecca with old glue residue to sheet verso; Travelers backed to wove paper; Game glued to wove paper along top edge.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-03-06