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Lot 204
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Felice Giani San Sebastiano Curone 1758 - 1823 Rome

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Felice Giani
  • recto: four biblical scenesverso: decorative designs

  • inscribed in pen and brown ink on the recto: Andrea da Pisa Porto di S. Petronio Bologna and numbered on the verso: 40 and 60

  • recto: pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk
    verso: pen and brown ink

Provenance

Herbert List (bears his collector's dry stamp; not in Lugt)

Condition

Inset in mount. Large fleur de lis watermark. Ink from verso does show through to recto. Overall, condition good.
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Catalogue Note

This page is clearly related to a number of Giani drawings in the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, which seem to have come from a sketchbook and which are composed, like this one, of decorative motifs and copies after works of art in Bologna and Rome.1  The New York drawings can be dated between 1811 and 1814.  The Cooper Hewitt holds a large collection of works by Giani, which came to the museum from Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt who had bought them from Giovanni Piancastelli.  The four scenes which Giani copied on this sheet are after Jacopo della Quercia's sculpted reliefs around the main portal of the Bolognese church of San Petronio.


1. See Anna Ottani Cavina, Felice Giani, Milan 1999, vol. II, p. 761, no. A.1.12 and in particular p. 804, no. A1.312, reproduced fig. 1155, which contains other copies after the portals of  San Petronio.