Giacomo Cavedone

Recto: A study of a priest holding a book, his right arm crossed on his chest; Verso: A study of a standing figure of a young soldier

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July 6, 10:38 AM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Property from the Collection formed by Arthur Feldmann

Giacomo Cavedone

Sassuolo 1577 - 1660 Bologna

Recto: A study of a priest holding a book, his right arm crossed on his chest;

Verso: A study of a standing figure of a young soldier

Black and white chalk on blue paper (recto and verso);

bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, verso: Cavedone and various sets of numbering in black chalk, recto and verso

314 by 235 mm

Arthur Feldmann (1877-1941), Brno;
sale, Lucerne, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 28 June 1934, lot 303 (unsold), verso reproduced, pl.2 (as Titian; catalogue by Otto Benesch);
looted by the Gestapo from the Feldmann villa, 15 March 1939¹;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 October 1946, lot 80;
purchased at this sale by Gosta Stenman, Stockholm;
from whom acquired by Einar Perman, Stockholm;
by whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1971, lot 57;
private collection, Italy;
restituted to the heirs of Arthur Feldmann in 2021

O. Benesch, Die Graphischen Künste, N.S. 1, 1936, p. 15, figs. 4 & 5 (as Titian);
E. Tietze-Conrat, in Old Master Drawings, September 1936, p. 24 (as Cavedone);
H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th & 16th Centuries, New York 1959, p. 313, no. A 1883 (as Cavedone, formerly Feldmann Collection)

Cavedone was apprenticed to Annibale Carraci, and thereafter worked for Guido Reni in Rome, also spending time in Venice, in 1612-13, before becoming one of Ludovico Carracci's principal assistants. The present studies cannot be connected with any surviving work by the artist, but are typical of his bold drawing style.

1. For an account of Arthur Feldmann as a collector, and of the fate that befell him and his collection following the Nazi occupation of Brno in 1939, see the catalogue introduction preceding the series of drawings from the Feldmann Collection sold at Sotheby's, London, on 6 July 2005 (lot 11-66), and also A. Gnann and H. Schödl (ed.), Spurensuche. Die Sammlung Arthur Feldmann und die Albertina, Vienna 2015