Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (Venice 1707-1769)
Lot 68

Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (Venice 1707-1769)

Design for a fountain of Neptune in his chariot drawn by four hippocamps, flanked by nymphs and putti

Closed31 January 2013

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USD 40,000

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Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (Venice 1707-1769)
Design for a fountain of Neptune in his chariot drawn by four hippocamps, flanked by nymphs and putti
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark bow and arrow
10¾ x 10½ in. (27.2 x 26.6 cm.)

with Colnaghi, London.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.

Specialist note

Byam Shaw was the first to publish this drawing which he considered to be an example of Tiepolo's influence on Fontebasso's use of pen and wash with minimal hatching.