Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (Bologna 1581-1641 Naples)
Lot 72

Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (Bologna 1581-1641 Naples)

The Finding of Moses

Closed8 December 2020

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Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (Bologna 1581-1641 Naples)
The Finding of Moses
with inscription ‘Dominichino’ (recto) and ‘di Castiglione [crossed out]/ [illegible inscription, crossed out] [...] del Dominichino’ (verso, visible through the mount)
pen and brown ink
5 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (12.9 x 18.7 cm)

Cavaliere Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676- 1742), Florence (L. 2992b, with associated inscription ‘di Castiglione [crossed out]/ [illegible inscription, crossed out] Orig.e del Dominichino’ (verso, visible through the mount).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L. 2364, possibly with associated number in red chalk ‘87’).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 22 June 1959, lot 449, where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


In subject and style this drawing is close to an upright Finding of Moses at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (K. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Italian Schools, II, Oxford, 1956, no. 839, pl. CLXXXI). The lively manner of the figures and the landscape style can also be compared to such pen sketches at Windsor Castle as the Last Communion of Saint Jerome and others in the Royal Collection (inv. RCIN 900594; see J. Pope-Hennessy, The Drawings of Domenichino in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1948, nos. 1065, 1688, 1689, pl. 20).