FLORENTINE SCHOOL of the XVIIth century Sagredo... Lot 25

FLORENTINE SCHOOL of the XVIIth century Sagredo montage comprising ten caricatures after Leonardo da Vinci and in the taste of Leonardo da Vinci Pen and brown ink, brown wash. Each vignette is annotated on the verso with the number of the Sagredo collection (ink showing through). (Bends, traces of glue, slightly insolate and fading). 60,5 x 42,5 cm dimensions of the mount Provenance: - Former Zaccaria Sagredo collection (Lugt 2103a). - Former Marcou collection (L.1911); all the vignettes, of various sizes, are stamped lower right. The head with the beret in the upper right corner is engraved by Giuseppe Gerli in 1784 in Milan (see Leonardo da Vinci, Drawings and Manuscripts, Paris, Louvre, 2003, n° 76, p.238, reproduced). The drawing is in the Ambrosiana (Milan). The woman with hair in profile on the second level on the right is engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar in 1645 from a drawing in the Arundel collection (see Leonardo da Vinci, the language of faces, Teyler museum, Haarlem, 2018, reproduced p.204). It is possible that these drawings were executed by Baccio del Bianco, who is known to have copied caricatures of Leonardo. Baccio del Bianco moved to Milan around 1624-1625.