Jan 23, 2003 - Sale 1957

Sale 1957 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
LEONARDO DA VINCI (FOLLOWER OF)
(Vinci 1452-1519 Cloux)
Bust Portrait of an Old Man (Self-Portrait).

Pen and brown ink and wash on cream laid paper. 42x40 mm; 1 3/4x1 5/8 inches. Ex-collection unknown collectors, oval with a cardinal's hat ink stamp verso (not in Lugt); oval with a crown and coat-of-arms ink stamp verso (not in Lugt); and Bodtz-Möller, ink stamp upper left recto (not in Lugt).

The model for the current work appears to be a Da Vinci self-portrait, such as that in red chalk from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, dating from 1512.