Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Tommaso Chiuso (active second half of 18th Century)
Lot 81

Tommaso Chiuso (active second half of 18th Century)

A set of six trompe l'oeil compositions of prints attached to wooden backboards

Closed31 January 2013

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Tommaso Chiuso (active second half of 18th Century)
A set of six trompe l'oeil compositions of prints attached to wooden backboards
signed and dated 'in Roma 1773' (i); 'All'Illmo. e Rmo Monsige Spreti In Roma presso Tommaso Chiuso Torinese l'Anno 1774.' and 'per Tom' (ii); 'Tomaso Chiuso Torinese fec. ** Roma 1774' (iii); 'To Chiuso inv. et del.' (v); 'Per Tommaso Chiuso *' and 'Tommaso Chiuso Torinese fece in Roma l'Anno 1773 alle 17 di Agosto' (vi); and each with extensive inscriptions on the prints, printed pages and calling cards
pencil, pen and ink, watercolor and bodycolor
averaging: 14 3/8 x 21 in. (26.7 x 53 cm.) (6)

Specialist note

Some of the prints by Rembrandt, Stefano della Bella and Jacques Callot can be identified:

i) Rembrandt (top right; Bartsch 16, in reverse); Rembrandt (lower left; similar to Bartsch 10, in reverse); della Bella (lower right; de Vesme 823 I/VI, p. 165); della Bella (top left; de Vesme 829 I/VI, p. 167)
ii) Callot (top left; Lieure 420)
iii) Callot (top center; Lieure 438 - detail); Callot (lower left; Lieure 439); Curti after Guercino (Bagni 126)
iv) Callot (top left; Lieure 407); Callot (lower left; Lieure 419 and 416 - on one sheet)
v) Rembrandt (top left; Bartsch 311, in reverse)
vi) Rosa (lower right; Bartsch 35)