Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Lot 21

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

The Assumption of the Virgin, after Luca Giordano, and two figures, after Antonio Vassilacchi, l'Aliense

Closed31 January 2013

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
The Assumption of the Virgin, after Luca Giordano, and two figures, after Antonio Vassilacchi, l'Aliense
inscribed 'Luca Giordano alla Salute Venise' and 'Bassan consiglio di dieci'
black chalk, a reworked counterproof
11½ x 8 in. (29.1 x 20.2 cm.)

Specialist note

The painting by Giordano is in the church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice (see O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1966, II, p. 73.; III, fig. 123). The two figures at the bottom are after The Adoration of the Magi, a fresco in the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Palazzo Ducale, Venezia.