Propert🌠y from th🍌e collection of the late Walter L. Strauss
Flemish School, late 16th century
Moses and the Brazen Serpent, after Ferrau F🌳enzoni
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3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Property from the collecti🧸on of the late Walter L. Strauss
Flemish School, late 16th century
Moses and the Brazen Serpent, after Ferrau Fenzoni
Pen and brown ink and gray wash, heightened with wꦯhite, ཧon blue paper;
bears brown ink numbering, upper right: 50
signed and dated in brown ink, verso: Romai.F.M : Wentura(?) / 15.91. and with later black chalk attribution, verso: Salimbeni
419 by 269 mm; 16½ by 10⅝ in.
Walter L. Strauss, New York (1922-1988),
thence by descent
thence by descent
Despite the apparent signature and dating to the verso, the author of this distinctive drawing, after Ferrau Fenzoni's fresco of the same subject for the Scala Santa, Rome, has thus far proved elusive. Fenzoni's fresco was completed in 1587 making the present work, which is dated 1591, an extremely early record of the composition. The drawing style is very reminiscent of that of the Brussels artist Hans Speckaert (circa 1540-circa 1577). See also the following lot, apparently by the same hand.