Live Auction 5472Old Master, 19th Century & British Drawings & Watercolours
Italian School, 18th Century
Lot 1028

Italian School, 18th Century

Hercules and Antaeus

Closed9 December 2010

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GBP 8,125

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Italian School, 18th Century
Hercules and Antaeus
black chalk, unframed
17 1/8 x 11¾ in. (43.5 x 29.7 cm.); and four other drawings from the Italian School, after compositions by Sebastiano Ricci and Piazzetta (5)

Indistinct collector's mark (lower left).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 7 November 1989, lot 410, as 'Attributed to Sebastiano Ricci'.

Specialist note

A close copy, with some small differences, after the painting Hercules and Antaeus in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. GG 1907), formerly attributed to Sebastiano Ricci but now reattributed to Giovanni Domenico Ferretti.