Lot 114
  • 114

Alessio de Marchis Naples 1684 - 1752 Perugia

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Alessio de Marchis
  • figures with a herd of cattle and camels watering at a ford, a watermill in the distance
  • numbered in brown ink, upper center: 56

  • red and black chalk and gray wash, on two joined sheets of paper;

Catalogue Note

Marco Chiarini elegantly summarized de Marchis's style and importance in an article in Master Drawings, vol. V, no. 3, 1967, pp. 289-291.  The technique of this drawing, with the use of red chalk and wash, is characteristic of the artist.