Lot 2088 Dα

The sculptor Adriaen de Vries, who was born in the Netherlands and later active in some of the most important art centres in Europe, worked in the 1580s in the workshop of Giovanni da Bologna in Florence. Here he received the decisive impulses for his sculptural work. Along with Bologna, de Vries was one of the most important sculptors of the Mannerist movement.
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann describes the stylistic elements of this drawing in detail in his expertise, and convincingly justifies the attribution to de Vries. In his opinion, the sheet can be dated to his early Florentine period, not least because of the religious subject, which is unusual for the artist. From 1601 onwards, de Vries worked at the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. No comparable motifs in his work are known from this period.