Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
PIETRO FANCELLI (BOLOGNA 1764-1850)
Lot 48 Property of an American Collector

PIETRO FANCELLI (BOLOGNA 1764-1850)

An officer experiencing a vision of the Madonna and Child appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot and another monk, inscribed in a lunette

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PIETRO FANCELLI (BOLOGNA 1764-1850)
An officer experiencing a vision of the Madonna and Child appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot and another monk, inscribed in a lunette
oil on grey (formerly blue) paper with a printed text on the verso
37 x 59 cm (14 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.)

Société historique et littéraire Polonaise, Paris; Christie’s, London, 4 July 1972, possibly as part of a lot.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 19 April 1994, lot 120.
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London (Master Drawings, 1995, no. 45, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

Although this drawing is not related to any known work by the artist, its shape is similar to that of another drawing by the artist, a study for a painting in the Schloss Fachsenfeld collection at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (inv. 785; see Christel Thiem, Disegni di artisti bolognesi dal Seicento all’Ottocento della Collezione Schloss Fachsenfeld e della Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, exhib. cat., Bologna, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, 1983-1984, no. 100, ill.). The Stuttgart drawing served as a design for a sepulchral monument, one of several designed by Fancelli in the early years of the 19th Century for the newly built cemetery of the Certosa, just outside Bologna.