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After Bartholomeus Spranger — Hercules
After Bartholomeus Spranger

Hercules

This drawing after Bartholomeus Spranger depicts Hercules and employs pen with brown and black ink, gray wash, over traces of black chalk. The work demonstrates the classical training and technique characteristic of Renaissance and post-Renaissance artistic practice.

Medium
Pen and brown and black ink and gray wash, over traces of black chalk;

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Old Master and British Works on Paper

January 19, 2022

Estimate: $800$1,200

Lot 95

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After Bartholomeus Spranger, Hercules

This drawing after Bartholomeus Spranger depicts Hercules and employs pen with brown and black ink, gray wash, over traces of black chalk. The work demonstrates the classical training and technique characteristic of Renaissance and post-Renaissance artistic practice.

Medium
Pen and brown and black ink and gray wash, over traces of black chalk;
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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Ink Wash, Classical, Sketch, Brown Tones, Mythological, Drawing, Male, Flemish, Figurative, Renaissance