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Italian School, 17th Century - Study After The Frescoes Of Bernardino Lanino

c. 1630

Benedetto Caliari (Verona 1538 – 1598 Venice) Portrait of a Woman Pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, heightened with white gouache, on prepared brown paper 22.4 × 30 cm Provenance...

Attributed to Francesco PENNI (1488 – 1528) Study for a fresco Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on prepared paper 14 x 12 cm Unsigned On the mount, handwriting ...

GIACINTO BRANDI (Poli 1621 – 1691 Rome) The Discovery of Moses Pen and brown ink, brown wash 43.2 x 29 cm Bears an inscription at the lower edge “Agostino Tassi” and on the revers...

Alexandre Ubelesqui (Paris, 1649 - 1718) Allegory of the Peace of Nijmegen Oil on canvas, unsigned 22 7/8 x 28 3/8 in 58 x 72 cm Provenance: Probably the sketch presented by the a...

The proposed attribution for this drawing in brown ink on paper is the name of the painter and academician of the Tuscan-Roman neoclassical cohort Francesco Nenci (Anghiari, April 19...

This masterly frontispiece study, executed with a very sure hand, testifies to the survival of the great Baroque taste in 18th century Venice. It could be one of the very last works by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini: the few lines that cross the papal arms evoke those of Benedict XIV, who became pope in 1740, one year before the artist's death. 1. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and the European influence of Venetian history painting in the 18th century Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini was born in Venice in 1675 and trained in the studio of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani (1655 - 1716). Pagani, who had been living in Venice since 1667, took him to Moravia and Vienna from 1690 to 1696. After a stay in Rome from 1699 to 1701, Pellegrini married Angiola Carriera in 1704, the sister of the great pastelist Rosalba Carriera. From 1708 onwards, Pellegrini left Venice and began an extensive tour of Europe: he worked in England between 1708 and 1713, where he met great success, particularly at Kimbolton Castle and Castle Howard. He then worked in Germany and the Netherlands, then in Bohemia and Austria, before returning briefly to England in 1719. In 1720 he was in Paris where he decorated the ceilings of the Royal Bank for John Law...

Graphite and grayish ink wash on bluish wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches (177 x 265 mm) (matrix). Scattered surface soiling, adhesive residue, dog-eared corners, and scattered edge tears along left margin, outside of image area. Paper is braced on the verso with two pages from a mid 19th century book with illustrations by C.Perrin. One image depicts a scene of a group of soldiers representing the Holy Roman Empire...

18th to 19th Century "Art Presentation" Old Master Drawing Remarkable old master pen, ink and wash drawing of an art presentation Dimensions 14" wide x 8.5" high The lightly distr...