Workshop of Baccio BANDINELLI (Florence 1488-1560) - Lot 20

Workshop of Baccio BANDINELLI (Florence 1488-1560) Full-length skinned profile and sketch of a severed head in the lower left corner Pen and brown ink Size : 39,5 x 14,4 cm Misses on the edges, folds, tears and stains. Lined. On the back, another silhouette of a man with a pen (the bottom of the drawing is detached from the lining). On an antique mount bearing the inscriptions: "089; 27; 26; N°373 375; Michel Ange 2A". And on the back: " Baccio Bandinelli; N141; N16; N150; 125#; N°28; Given by Monsieur le Baron de La Morenne in Paris on June 10, 1785 Provenance: Former collection of the Duc d'Hostun, Comte de Tallard, until 1756 (?) Former collection of the Baron de la Morenne until 1785 (?) There are several known versions of this ecorché, one of which is in the English Royal Collections (RCIN 990395), made by Bandinelli's pupils from a lost original. Expert : Cabinet de Bayser Note from Alexandre Landre: This drawing was most probably sold at the Duke of Hostun Tallard's sale which took place in 1756. This was one of the very first auctions to have a sale catalog. This sale will lead to the dispersion of works of the greatest painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Correggio, Carracci, Guido Reni, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin... The collection of the Duke of Hostun Tallard was known to be one of the richest after those of the King and the Duke of Orleans. Our drawing would have been part of lot 470 regrouping "5 drawings including an anatomy sheet". Attributed at the time to Michelangelo, it would have been subsequently in the hands of Baron Henry Oberty de La Morenne whose trace we found in the archives of the castle of Sassenage (receipts of payments made to the creditors of the succession of the Duke of Tallard). The drawing would have been subsequently given to the family of Charles Pardinel by Georgette Catroux in January 1973, probably from the family of René Claude (1874 -1964) and Tristan Catroux known as experts in paintings whose names appear in many sales catalogs of the second half of the twentieth century. We thank Jean-Pierre Ovion, co-author with Michel Bellanger of the book "La Collection duc d'Hostun-Tallard, une passionnante chasse aux trésors des tableaux dispersés en 1756" for giving us access to the digitized archives of the Château de Sassenage.