Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
AURELIANO MILANI (BOLOGNA 1675-1749)
Lot 35 Property of an American Collector

AURELIANO MILANI (BOLOGNA 1675-1749)

The Death of Saint Francis, after Annibale Carracci

Closed4 July 2023

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AURELIANO MILANI (BOLOGNA 1675-1749)
The Death of Saint Francis, after Annibale Carracci
black chalk, stumping, heightened with white, on light brown paper, black chalk framing lines
25.4 x 18.3 cm (10 x 7 1/4 in.)

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 19 April 1994, lot 97.
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London (Master Drawings, 1995, no. 27, ill.; Old Master and 19th Century Drawings. A Selection from our Current Stock, 2001-2002, no. 21, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

This drawing, in black chalk softly stumped technique, reveals Aureliano Milani’s skill as a draughtsman. In his works the artist often re-interpreted inventions of the great masters of the Bolognese school of the 17th Century, Ludovico and Annibale Carracci in particular. The present composition derives from a painting by Annibale of 1597-1598, known only through an engraving by Gérard Audran (D. Posner, Annibale Carracci. A Study in the Reform of Italian Painting around 1590, II, p. 44, no. 101, pl.101; Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori, exhib. cat., Rome, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica,1986, no. 35, ill.). This drawing can be compared with other sheets by Milani executed in a similar technique, such as the Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist in the Budapest (inv. 1951-6412; see A. Czére, Disegni di artisti bolognesei nel Museo delle Belle Arti di Budapest, Bologna, Collezioni di Arte e Storia della Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, 1989, pp. 150-151).