School of Fontainebleau, After Jean Goujon (French, 1510-1565) Study of Nereids and Tritons with a frieze of putti; Study of architectural details and frieze of putti (double-sided work) Black and sepia ink on laid paper 7 x 8-7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.5 cm) (sheet) Property from the William A. Glaser Collection PROVENANCE: George L. Poland, Raleigh, North Carolina; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, gift of the above, by 1964; Acquired by the present owner by 1981. EXHIBITED: Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, "French Art of the 16th Century," June 27-September 30, 1964, no. 25; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (and elsewhere), "The School of Fontainebleau," September 15-December 1, 1965, no. 38. LITERATURE: North Carolina Museum of Art, Bulletin Biennial Report Issue, vol. 4, 2-3, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1963, pp. 40, 60, fig. 7, illustrated in black and white; Cummer Gallery of Art, French Art of the 16th Century, exhibition catalogue, Jacksonville, Florida, 1964, no. 25; Fort Worth Art Center, The School of Fontainebleau, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, Texas, 1965, p. 2, no. 38, illustrated; North Carolina Museum of Art, A Catalogue of drawings and watercolors, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1969, pp. 14-15, no. 25, illustrated in black and white. Heritage is honored to present the William A. Glaser Collection of Old Master Drawings. A social scientist who spent his adult life researching, writing books, and teaching, William A. Glaser (1925-2023) earned his MA and PhD in the Sociology of Government from Harvard University after spending the end of World War II on Iwo Jima. His scholarly focus centered on health care, and he conducted extensive comparative international research in medical care administration, comparative social structures in developed countries, and the migration of professionals. He taught at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University in his native New York City as well as at Michigan State University, and wrote several books on public policy addressing topics that remain vitally significant today including The Brain Drain: Emigration and Return (1978); Paying the Hospital: The Organization, Dynamics, and Effects of Differing Financial Arrangements (1987); and The Politics of Health Care Reform: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, contributing writer (1994). Glaser's passion for art arose by visiting museums while he was on research assignments in various countries. He found he was particularly attracted to master drawings. Beginning around 1960 he started frequenting auction houses and eventually began bidding for drawings in earnest. His zeal for art was matched by his love for researching it, a carryover from his training as a sociologist. Often within mere days of buying a drawing, Glaser was writing to the foremost expert or experts on the artist to whom his sheet was attributed. His tenaciousness in trying to pin down attributions often resulted in spirited and extensive correspondence with scholars, gallerists and auction house specialists, and museum professionals. His copious letters, all filed neatly and chronologically in curatorial files he kept for decades, usually start with his trademark line, "I collect Old Master drawings." Collecting unsigned or perhaps insecurely attributed Old Master and nineteenth-century drawings had the thrill of the chase connected with it. Glaser profoundly enjoyed buying works whose attributions he could puzzle over with the best drawing connoisseurs of the day. Regular visitors to the Glasers' Morningside Drive home for a coffee, lunch or intimate supper and the chance to view the collector's recent acquisition included luminaries based in New York such as Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, brilliant connoisseur of Dutch and Flemish art; Professor Ann Sutherland Harris, distinguished scholar of the Italian Baroque; and museum professionals Carmen Bambach and William Griswold from the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art. For William Glaser, there were no better places to live than New York, London, and Paris—cities brimming with beautiful drawings and opportunities to buy them. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Glaser collection will benefit animal and other humane organizations. HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice