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Lot 83
  • 83

* Benedetto Gennari Cento 1633 - 1715 Bologna

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Description

  • Benedetto Gennari
  • andromeda and the dragon
  • bears two attributions in pencil, one on the backing of the drawing, the other on the old mount: Albano and F Albani, and on the backing board in pen and ink
  • red chalk with touches of white chalk

Provenance

A.O. Meyer (L.1994)

Catalogue Note

The attribution was proposed by Nicholas Turner, who pointed out the compositional links with a painting of the same subject now in a private collection in Bologna (see Prisco Bagni, Benedetto Gennari, Padua 1986, no. 32, reproduced).  The painting is dated to 1674-75, the period in which Gennari left Paris for England.  Bagni writes of the painting: 'Il dipinto pur essendo di chiara impronta guercinesca, risente di una certa raffinatezza probabilmente derivata dalle sue esperienze in Francia'.  Stylistically, the present work fits well with Gennari's known drawings.