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Property from an Important Private Collection
Sienese School, 16th Century
Design for a wall decoration with scenes from the life of Moses
Details
Sienese School, 16th Century
Design for a wall decoration with scenes from the life of Moses
extensively inscribed in Latin 'Traditur/ lex Moisi', 'Cofregitur/ Tabulas le/ gis ', 'insequitur pharao iudeos,/ et demergitur', and 'tangit moises silicem sili/cem virga et inundant tor/rentes'; and names of Old Testament prophets 'David', Isayas', Iheremias', and 'Daniel'
pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, heightened with white, some parts made up along the central vertical crease
15 ¾ x 22 in. (40 x 55.9 cm.)
Design for a wall decoration with scenes from the life of Moses
extensively inscribed in Latin 'Traditur/ lex Moisi', 'Cofregitur/ Tabulas le/ gis ', 'insequitur pharao iudeos,/ et demergitur', and 'tangit moises silicem sili/cem virga et inundant tor/rentes'; and names of Old Testament prophets 'David', Isayas', Iheremias', and 'Daniel'
pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, heightened with white, some parts made up along the central vertical crease
15 ¾ x 22 in. (40 x 55.9 cm.)
Provenance
The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Wilton House, Salisbury; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1917, lot 495 (as Perino del Vaga; 'Design for a fresco consisting of scenes from the life of Moses; above, two medallions show Moses receiving the Tables of the Law, and Moses breaking the Tables in anger; below, Pharaoh in the Red Sea; and Moses Striking the Rock with the water gushing out').