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Donato Creti (Cremona 1671-1749 Bologna)
Lot 89

Donato Creti (Cremona 1671-1749 Bologna)

Studies of a Baptism of Christ and of Christ carrying the Cross (recto); Saint John the Baptist and a study of a figure embracing figures (verso)

Closed8 December 2020

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Donato Creti (Cremona 1671-1749 Bologna)
Studies of a Baptism of Christ and of Christ carrying the Cross (recto); Saint John the Baptist and a study of a figure embracing figures (verso)
inscribed ‘Lapis’
pen and brown ink (recto and verso), watermark star
6 ½ x 7 7/8 in. (16.6 x 20.1 cm)

Conte Alessandro Maggiori (late 18th-early 19th Century), Faenza and Rome (L. 3005b, his inscriptions ‘Donato Creti fece’ (recto) and ‘Aless. Maggiori compro/ in Bologna l'an:/ no 1792’ (verso).
Claudio Argentieri (1891-1956), Spoleto and Rome (L. 486b).
Pier Giulio Breschi (1874-1937), Rome (L. 2079b).
with W.R. Jeudwine, London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings at the Alpine Club Gallery, 1961, no. 23), where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


The study on the recto of this drawing can be related to three paintings: one in the church of San Pietro in Fiesso, one in the collections of the city of Bologna, and one recorded on the Milanese art market (Riccòmini, op. cit., p. 85, under no. 95.3, figs. 5, 6, 7). For his assistance in writing this note, we are grateful to Marco Riccòmini, who suggested Creti's inscription ‘Lapis’ may refer to lapis lazuli, the blue pigment which he may have used in the sky of the composition of these paintings.