{"product_id":"the-hatvany-collection-highly-important-old-master-drawings","title":"The Hatvany Collection: Highly important old master drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon, Christie, Manson \u0026amp; Woods Ltd., 1980.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo, 99, [5] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn auction catalogue from the Christie's sales of the collection of \u003cstrong\u003eBaron Paul Hatvany\u003c\/strong\u003e (1899–1977), a descendant of one of Hungary's wealthiest Jewish families, who settled in England at the outbreak of the Second World War. Hatvany assembled a distinguished collection of Old Master drawings, paintings and bronzes; on his death several of his most important pictures were presented to the British nation as a token of his affection for his adopted country. The collection was dispersed in two sales: drawings on 24 June 1980 and bronzes and works of art on 25 June 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue covers the drawings sale: 81 lots, including works by Mantegna, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Tiepolo, Watteau, Fragonard and Ingres, each described in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike all auction catalogues, it is an essential source for provenance research: many of these sheets are now in major museum collections, and the 1980 sale is an important link in their ownership history. Among them: the J. Paul Getty Museum (lot 2, a cutting from a gradual; lot 8, \u003cem\u003eThree Studies of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e by Fra Bartolommeo; lot 10, \u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Young Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, attributed to Andrea Previtali); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (lot 75, \u003cem\u003eUriah before King David\u003c\/em\u003e by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout); the Art Gallery of South Australia (lot 17, \u003cem\u003eHead of Giuliano de' Medici\u003c\/em\u003e by Jacopo Tintoretto; lot 35, \u003cem\u003eCupid Extracting a Thorn from Venus' Foot\u003c\/em\u003e by Carlo Maratti); the National Gallery of Art, Washington (lot 74, \u003cem\u003eJoseph Recounting His Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e by Rembrandt); and the Morgan Library \u0026amp; Museum (lot 3, \u003cem\u003eThree Standing Saints\u003c\/em\u003e by Andrea Mantegna). Other drawings later reappeared at Christie's, among them lot 37, \u003cem\u003eStudies of Heads of Orientals\u003c\/em\u003e by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (28 January 1999); lot 9, \u003cem\u003eStudy of a Tree\u003c\/em\u003e by Fra Bartolommeo (7 July 2010); and lot 38, \u003cem\u003eA Venetian Capriccio\u003c\/em\u003e by Francesco Guardi (26 January 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal boards. Illustrated endpapers. Near very good: very light rubbing, a light scratch to the fore-edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59252765360476,"sku":"SYR-016","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/DSC00628.jpg?v=1791301472","url":"https:\/\/syrovatskaya.com\/products\/the-hatvany-collection-highly-important-old-master-drawings","provider":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}