Jan 24, 2005 - Sale 2030

Sale 2030 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ALESSANDRO MAGANZA
(Vicenza 1556-1630 Vicenza)
Christ on the Mount of Olives.

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on cream laid paper. 280x210 mm; 111/8x8>AF3/8> inches. With a study of Roman soldiers gambling for Christ's robe in pen and brown ink and purple wash, verso. Inscribed "esquisse de . . . dal Tintoretto" in ink, lower right recto, and "da Allesandro Maganzi" in ink, verso. Ex-collection H. W. Fichter, Frankfurt.

Both are drawn after works by Tintoretto and likely date from around 1572-76, when Maganza was working in Venice and studying paintings by contemporary masters.