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FEDELE FISCHETTI (NAPLES 1732-1792)
Lot 60

FEDELE FISCHETTI (NAPLES 1732-1792)

The Virgin presenting the rosary to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena presenting a heart to the Christ Child

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FEDELE FISCHETTI (NAPLES 1732-1792)
The Virgin presenting the rosary to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena presenting a heart to the Christ Child
signed ‘Fed. Fischetti’ (verso)
black chalk, pen and black ink, gray wash, arched top, black ink framing lines
14 ¾ x 9 5⁄8 in. (37.5 x 24.5 cm)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 13 December 2001, lot 5.

Specialist note

Fedele Fischetti was a Neapolitan artist active mainly as a fresco decorator, but he was also the author of several altarpieces. This highly finished study was most likely a preparatory modello for an altarpiece. A similar composition with the Virgin of the Rosary, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine is in the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York (inv. 1938-88-6453; see The Two Sicilies, exhib. cat., New York, Finch College Museum of Art, 1970, no. 64, ill.). The two drawings could have been alternative ideas for the same commission.