Auction on
26 March 2021 - 15:00 (CET) -
Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
A preparatory drawing from the Marquis of Lagoy’s fabulous collection reveals a little-known facet of the Antwerp master: he was also a vignette illustrator. This study is a concentration of his usual virtuosity.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), draft vignette for Opticorum libri sex by Franciscus Aguilon, c. 1613, pen and brown ink, brown ink wash and white gouache highlights, grooved with a stylus, 9.5 x 14.3 cm (3.74 x 5.62 in). Estimate: €200,000/300,000
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), draft vignette for Opticorum libri sex by Franciscus Aguilon, c. 1613, pen and brown ink, brown ink wash and white gouache highlights, grooved with a stylus, 9.5 x 14.3 cm (3.74 x 5.62 in). Estimate: €200,000/300,000
At first sight, the lively, whimsical scene may seem unfathomable: assisted by putti, a bearded man poses as Atlas, but on his back, the world is replaced by an armillary sphere. A fluttering putto holds a torch whose light projects the instrument’s shadow on the floor so that another can measure it with a compass and instruct a third.…
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