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Domenico Maria Viani (Bologna 1668-1711 Pistoia)
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Domenico Maria Viani (Bologna 1668-1711 Pistoia)

Removal of the dead during a plague

Fermé31 January 2019

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Domenico Maria Viani (Bologna 1668-1711 Pistoia)
Removal of the dead during a plague
with inscription in ink 'Dom.co Viani dalla Chiesa di Servi in Imola' (verso)
black chalk, watermark crescent moons
10 1/8 x 17 in. (26 x 43.5 cm)

Private collection, Madrid.
Private collection, United States.

Note du spécialiste

In 1697 Viani was commissioned by the Servite Friars of Imola to paint a large canvas with some fifty figures that would show the Virgin and Saints protecting the city from a plague. As related by Giovanni Nicolò Villa (1794), the painting was first damaged and then irreparably lost by 1897. Both the subject of this drawing and the inscription on its verso confirm that this is the preparatory drawing for the lower section of that painting. Delicately drawn in black chalk, it is a rare graphic record for Viani, a pupil of Carlo Cignani, first trained by his father, Giovanni Maria Viani.