Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
GIUSEPPE PASSERI (Rome 1654-1714)
Lot 33 Property of an American Collector

GIUSEPPE PASSERI (Rome 1654-1714)

The Virgin and Child with saints and angels (recto); A study of a mounted warrior and a pair of figures (verso)

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 12,600

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GIUSEPPE PASSERI (Rome 1654-1714)
The Virgin and Child with saints and angels (recto); A study of a mounted warrior and a pair of figures (verso)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, pen and brown ink framing lines (recto); red chalk, pen and brown ink (verso); a strip of paper added below
23 x 22.6 cm (9 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Unidentified collector (possibly L. 2169).
with Yvonne ffrench, London (Italian Old Master Drawings and Early English Drawings, London, Alpine Club Gallery, 1961, no. 39).
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1966.
Burnet Pavitt, London; bequeathed to
Royal College of Music, London; Christie’s, London, 8 July 2003, lot 39.
with Jean-Luc Baroni, London (Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 2004, no. 35, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

The drawing is a fine example of Passeri’s highly pictorial draughtsmanship. The characteristic combination of red chalk with pen, brown ink and wash and extensive application of white heightening, was often used by the artist in preparatory studies for paintings, yet no painted composition of this subject by Passeri is known. The partially visible sketch of a mounted warrior on the verso can be compared to the drawing of a King before a walled town in the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (inv. KA (FP) 2250; see D. Graf, Die Handzeichnungen des Giuseppe Passeri, Düsseldorf, 1995, I, no. 649, II, ill.).