Auction on
12 April 2019 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
A metal point sends the price of an Italian Renaissance drawing soaring.
Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (1488-1528), “La Sainte Famille avec saint Jean-Baptiste enfant” (“The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist as a Child”), metal point, pen, brown ink and white highlights, framing threads, lined with paper, 19.5 x 12.2 cm. Result: €1,401,200
Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (1488-1528), “La Sainte Famille avec saint Jean-Baptiste enfant” (“The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist as a Child”), metal point, pen, brown ink and white highlights, framing threads, lined with paper, 19.5 x 12.2 cm. Result: €1,401,200
The bidders who fiercely competed for this drawing before one of them won the war with €1,401,200 undoubtedly hoped it would be attributed to the teacher rather than the student. Florence-born Giovanni…
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