Live Auction 1961Old Master And 19th Century Drawings
Roman School, early 18th Century
Lot 25

Roman School, early 18th Century

Four grotesque animals and a fragmentary study of a draped figure

Closed24 January 2008

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USD 6,250

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Roman School, early 18th Century
Four grotesque animals and a fragmentary study of a draped figure
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), on brown prepared paper
6 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (155 x 250 mm.)

Specialist note

A copy of the recto is in an album of drawings by Carlo Marchionni (1702-86) in the Louvre (inv. RF 42342). Marchionni, who produced many caricatures also had an important collection of prints and drawings (see B. Ledru, 'Carlo Marchionni (1702-1786): deux albums de dessins acquis par le départment des arts graphiques du Louvre', Revue du Louvre, 1993, 43, no. 3, pp. 28-40).
Attributions to Carlo Maratta and Pier Leone Ghezzi have also been suggested.