Works - Recent Acquisitions | PONCELIN DE RAUCOURT FINE ARTS

Dear Collectors and Connoisseurs,

We are pleased to present our online exhibition Recent Acquisitions, accessible through this Private Viewing and available until the end of May.

This selection brings together a group of recently acquired drawings spanning from around 1500 to the present day, reflecting the breadth of our research and ongoing discoveries.

The exhibition is led by a rare and previously unpublished oil on paper by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, known as Il Grechetto (Genoa 1609 – Mantua 1664), a remarkable and highly distinctive work within the artist’s oeuvre. It is presented alongside an important and rare drawing by Federico Zuccaro (Sant’Angelo in Vado 1542 – 1609 Ancona), a preparatory study for the upper section of The Baptism of Cornelius the Centurion, executed for the Cappella Paolina in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican between 1580 and 1584.

Also featured is a particularly significant and previously unrecorded drawing after Michelangelo, possibly by Aristotile da Sangallo (Florence, 1480 – 1551): a double-sided sheet with copies after designs for the sculptural decoration of the projected double tomb of the Capitani and the unexecuted double tomb of the Magnifici, datable to circa 1520. Documenting an early and largely unrealised phase of Michelangelo’s work for the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, this sheet provides rare and valuable insight into one of the most ambitious sculptural programmes of the Renaissance, and stands as an important addition to the corpus of works related to this project.

The selection further includes a significant and large-scale drawing by Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757 – Venice 1822), a remarkable sheet by Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo 1577 – Bologna 1660), and a rare red chalk drawing by Andrea Boscoli (Florence 1560 – Rome 1608).

As always, each work has been chosen for its quality, rarity, and art historical interest.

We hope you will enjoy exploring this selection and would be delighted to hear from you should any work catch your eye.

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called Il Grechetto (Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua)

The raising of Lazarus

Brush drawing in red and brown oil paint, heightened with blue and white, on laid paper, laid down on canvas and mounted on paper

21 1/2 x 15 3/8 in
54.5 x 39 cm
Circle of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)

Study of a standing male nude for Hercules

Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on brown prepared paper

13 x 6 3/4 in
33 x 17 cm
Workshop of Michelangelo, possibly Piero d'ARGENTA (Active 1497 - 1530)

Studies of Michelangelo’s Galli statue, from the front and behind back, and partial views (recto) Study after a lost drawing by Michelangelo for the Ignudo above the Eritrean Sibyl in the Sistine Chapel (verso), circa 1510-1520

Pen and brown ink on paper

7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in
19 x 13 cm
Giacomo CAVEDONE (Sassuolo, 1577 - 1660 Bologna)

THE HEAD OF AN OLD MAN, PROBABLY ST JOSEPH, c. 1620

Black chalk heightened with white on brown prepared paper

15 x 10 3/4 in
38.1 x 27.3 cm
FEDERICO BAROCCI (Urbino 1526-35 - 1612)

Study of bearded man

Bears an inscription in pen and brown ink "Federico Barocci"

Black and red chalk, stumping, pastel heightened with white on brown-prepared paper

15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in
39 x 27 cm
Alessandro ALLORI (Florence, 1535 - 1607)

Study for a nude male figure, c. 1570

Bears no '39' (upper right)

Black chalk and traces of red chalk on paper

12 1/4 x 8 3/4 in
31.1 x 22.2 cm
Attributed to Toussaint DUBREUIL (Paris 1561 - 1602)

A standing male nude after Michelangelo

On the backside mark written in brown ink, L.743b; monogram « DRF »
and below « 5 »

Red chalk on paper

15 x 8 1/4 in
38 x 21 cm
Jacob JORDAENS (Anvers, 1593 - 1678)

Study for the figure of Silenus, c. 1620

Red and black chalk, within brown ink framing lines

16 7/8 x 11 1/8 in
42.9 x 28.4 cm
Anthonius VAN DYCK (Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London)

A portrait study of a standing man, c. 1630

Black and white chalk on bluish green paper

9 7/8 x 6 3/4 in
25 x 17 cm
€ 25,000.00
Jan GOEREE (Middleburg 1670 - 1731 Amsterdam)

Interior of Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk, c. 1724

Red chalk and graphite, pen and black ink, grey wash on paper

9 7/8 x 6 3/4 in
25 x 17 cm
Jacques DUMONT called LE ROMAIN (Paris 1701 - 1781)

Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in Rome on November 30, 1729, for the birth of the Dauphin, son of Louis XV, after PANINI, 1732-1735

Signed lower left: Dumont le Rom. and inscribed on the base F Panini 1731.

Pen and black ink, red chalk, gray wash, and white gouache on oiled and waxed transparent paper, partially squared.

15 3/8 x 35 in
39 x 89 cm
Anders Leonard Zorn (Mora 1860 – 1920)

Ernest Renan, c. 1892

Signed lower right "Zorn"

Pen and ink on paper

7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in
18.5 x 12.5 cm
Jean-Baptiste GREUZE (Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)

An old man breathing his last in his bed, surrounded by his loved ones

Black chalk, heightened with white, Indian ink, gray wash, watercolor, on light brown paper.

15 1/8 x 17 7/8 in
38.5 x 45.5 cm
€ 28,000.00
Isidore Pils (Paris 1813 - Douarnenez 1875)

Studies of a Woman Holding a Bowl, 1852

Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on buff paper

14 1/4 x 10 3/8 in
36.3 x 26.5 cm
€ 1,500.00
Adolphe William Bouguereau (La Rochelle 1825 - 1905)

Study for La Toilette de Vénus, c. 1873

Signed lower left “W. Bouguereau”

Graphite on paper

13 x 9 7/8 in
32.9 x 25.1 cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau (La Rochelle 1825 - 1905)

Study of the Head of the Virgin, ca. 1873-78

Drawing, pencil and white chalk highlights on paper

11 3/8 x 9 1/4 in
29 x 23.5 cm
Attributed to Armand Rassenfosse (Liège, 1862 – 1934)

Half-length Nude Woman Arranging Her Hair, 1906

Graphite on paper

23 7/8 x 15 3/4 in
60.5 x 40 cm
Federico ZUCCARO (Sant' Angelo in Vado, 1542 - 1609 Ancona)

THE HOLY GHOST ENCIRCLED BY ANGELS , c. 1580

Bears numbering in pen and brown ink, verso: No. 146

Black and red chalk on paper

14 7/8 x 10 5/8 in
37.9 x 27 cm
Andrea BOSCOLI (Florence, 1560 - 1608, Rome)

Four male nudes, c. 1580

Red chalk on paper washed light pink

10 5/8 x 14 7/8 in
26.9 x 37.8 cm
Henri LEBASQUE (Champigné 1865 - 1937 Le Cannet)

Reclining female nudes with an umbrella

Pencil, stumping and heightened with watercolor

10 5/8 x 9 1/2 in
27 x 24 cm
€ 2,800.00
Studio of Carlo Maratti (or Maratta) (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713)

Studies of a kneeling female figure, an arm, a hand, and a head in profile, c. 1700

Red chalk on paper

16 7/8 x 10 5/8 in
43 x 27 cm
Roman School mid 16th Century

The Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk on paper

10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in
27 x 19 cm
€ 35,000.00
Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1757 – Venice, 1822)

Study of a Male Nude, c. 1790

Ink, pen and pencil on paper

19 1/4 x 13 1/4 in
49 x 33.5 cm
Giuseppe BOSSI (Busto Arsizio 1777 - 1815 Milano)

Studies of seated figures

Pen and brown ink on paper

7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in
18 x 14 cm
Ernő Schubert (Bácsfa 1903 - Budapest 1960)

Seated Woman, c. 1927

Pen and black ink on cream newsprint paper

11 3/4 x 8 3/8 in
29.8 x 21.3 cm
€ 3,000.00
Domenico Maria Canuti (Bologna 1625 – 1684)

Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind, c. 1670 - 1680

Red chalk on laid paper

15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in
39 x 26 cm
€ 6,000.00
Giacinto BRANDI (Poli 1621 - 1691 Rome)

Finding of Moses

Bears an inscription lower « Agostino Tassi » and on verso « Brandi Gonzo ?» On verso, Study of figures in red chalk

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, on paper

16 7/8 x 11 3/8 in
43 x 29 cm
Attributed to Vincenzo DE’ ROSSI (Fiesole 1525 - 1587 Florence)

Study after Michelangelo’s David

Bears an inscription lower right « Baccio Bandi… » Bears the inscription written by Sagredo on the mount « S.F. n°73 » or Scuola Fiorentina n° 73

Pen and brown ink on paper

15 3/4 x 6 1/4 in
40 x 16 cm
€ 18,000.00
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called GUERCINO (Cento 1591 - 1666 Bologna)

Leaning Nude Man (recto); Kneeling Man, Hands Tied Behind His Back (verso)

Black chalk heightened with white on light blue-grey paper

18 1/8 x 13 3/4 in
46 x 35 cm
After Michelangelo, possibly by Aristotile da Sangallo (Florence, 1480 - 1551)

Double-side Sheet, with copies after designs for sculptural decoration of the projected double-tomb of the "Capitani" and of the unexecuted double-tomb of the magnifici, c. 1520

Pen and brown ink, with brown wash

11 x 8 in
28 x 20.3 cm
Eduard Houbolt (Hof van Delft, 1885 – The Hague, 1954)

Iris Numerata, 1947

Signed, dated and inscribed “Eduard Houbolt / fecit. ad vivum / 10. Juni. 1947 / IRIS NUMERATA” (recto), and “fig. 2. / 1/2 / Vos […] / k 4689/3” (verso).

Pastel on paper

8 5/8 x 9 3/4 in
22 x 24.9 cm
Domenico Cresti, called Il Passignano (Tavarnelle Val di Pesa 1559 - 1638 Florence)

Male Figure on a Ladder

Red chalk heightened with white on cream paper

15 1/2 x 9 7/8 in
39.5 x 25 cm
Jean-Léon GÉROME (Vesoul 1824 - 1904 Paris)

A philosopher discoursing

Pencil on paper

8 1/4 x 11 3/8 in
21 x 29 cm
Giovanni Battista TIEPOLO (Venise, 1696 - 1770, Madrid)

Head of Giulio Contarini after Alessandro Vittoria

Black chalk heightened with white on blue paper

10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in
27 x 35 cm
€ 38,000.00

A full price list is available upon request.

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