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DOMENICO CRESTI, IL PASSIGNANO (PASSIGNANO 1559-1638 FLORENCE)
Lot 8 Property of an American Collector

DOMENICO CRESTI, IL PASSIGNANO (PASSIGNANO 1559-1638 FLORENCE)

Saint Michael defeating the rebel angels

Closed1 February 2024

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DOMENICO CRESTI, IL PASSIGNANO (PASSIGNANO 1559-1638 FLORENCE)
Saint Michael defeating the rebel angels
numbered ‘65’ (upper right) and ‘6536’ and ‘2’ (on the mount)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, inscribed arched top, pen and black ink framing lines
11 x 5 ¾ in. (28.2 x 14.8 cm)

Possibly Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799), Rome.
Vincenzo Pacetti (1746-circa 1820), Rome; by descent to
Michelangelo Pacetti (1793-1855), Rome (L. 2057).
Gustav Waagen for the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, in 1843.
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (L. 4958).
Probably Theodore Allen Heinrich (1910-1981), Toronto.
with Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London (Master Drawings, 1994, no. 20, ill.).

Specialist note

The Florentine Domenico Cresti worked as a young man with Federico Zuccari, and with him travelled to Rome and Venice. Passignano’s art was deeply influenced by that of the older master. The present sheet comes from the collection of the 18th Century Roman sculptor and restorer Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. Many other drawings from the same collection are now in the Kupferstsichkabinett, Berlin.