Lot 10
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Alberto Carlieri

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • Alberto Carlieri
  • Caprices architecturaux:Apôtres prêchant dans des ruines romaines au pied d'un grand vase aux Trois Grâces ;Un groupe de bergers se réunissant autour de la statue de 'Silène portant Dionysos enfant'
  • Huile sur toile, une paire

Condition

The following condition report has been provided by Catherine Polnecq, 12 rue Saint-Sabin - 75011 Paris, Tel: 33 (0)1 48 05 30 53, Email: c.polnecq@hotmail.fr, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. (1) With the vase of the Three Graces: Very good overall condition. Under a dirty uniform varnish. Under ultraviolet light: The architrave on the left has been reinforced. There are some retouches in the background under the arch and in the upper right angle. (2) With the statue of 'Silenus and Dionysos': Very good overall condition. Under a dirty uniform varnish. Under ultraviolet light: The paint is beginning to lift in the sky in the upper part. There are a few small retouches in the statue.
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Catalogue Note

La redécouverte de l'œuvre d'Alberto Carlieri a suscité l'intérêt de divers spécialistes au cours des dernières années. De nombreux caprices architecturaux, plus souvent donnés à Giovanni Paolo Panini, Giovanni Ghisolfi ou Domenico Roberti, ont aujourd'hui pu être rendus à l'artiste.

Carlieri se forma à Rome chez les Jésuites, auprès de Giuseppe Marchi, peintre d'architecture, puis avec le père Andrea Pozzo, maître de la Quadratura. Il s'affirma peu à peu dans la peinture de ruines antiques, qu'il animait de passages de la Bible et des Evangiles. Certaines de ces œuvres ont figuré dans de grandes collections romaines inventoriées au milieu du XVIIIème siècle, au Palais Colonna ou à la Villa Paolina.

Ces tableaux illustrent toute la richesse du vocabulaire architectural de l'artiste: colonnes à chapiteaux ioniques, doriques ou corinthiens, arcades en pierre ou en briques, colonnes surmontées de statues brisées, etc. Carlieri multiplie les citations, s'inspirant de l'art baroque, avec ces grands vases bellifontains sculptés en relief, et de la statuaire antique avec le 'Silène portant Dionysos enfant' (statue du IIIème siècle, Musée du Louvre). L'œuvre de Carlieri fut une importante source d'inspiration pour Panini et les peintres de caprices qui ont suivi (voir D. R. Marshall, "The architectural piece in 1700: The paintings of Alberto Carlieri (1672-c.1720), pupil of Andrea Pozzo", in Artibus et historiae. An art anthology, IRSA, Vienne-Cracovie, 2004, no. 50, XXV, pp. 39-126).

Nous remercions le professeur David R. Marshall de nous avoir confirmé l'attribution de nos tableaux à Alberto Carlieri sur la base de photographies.


ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCI :
PREACHING APOSTLES IN ROMAN RUINS BY A VASE OF THE THREE GRACES ;
A GROUP OF SHEPHERDS RESTING BY THE STATUE OF 'SILENUS HOLDING THE INFANT DIONYSOS'

Oil on canvas, a pair

The rediscovery of Alberto Carlieri as an artistic personality has led to an increased interest in the artist's works among scholars in recent years. Numerous architectural capricci which had formerly been ascribed to Giovanni Paolo Panini, Giovanni Ghisolfi or Domenico Roberti, can today be attributed with certainty to Carlieri.

He trained in Rome with the Jesuits, initially under the architectural painter Giuseppe Marchi and then with Andrea Pozzo, master of the Quadratura. Carlieri gradually made himself known by painting classical ruins and placing biblical figures among them. Many of his works are listed in the inventories of important collections in Rome in the middle of the 18th century, such as those at Palazzo Colonna, Villa Paolina and the like.

This pair of paintings illustrates the richness of the artist's architectural vocabulary : columns with Ionic, Doric and Corinthian capitals, stone or brick arcades, columns surmounted by statues etc. Carlieri includes numerous references to the antique such as the large sculpted vases or classical sculpture such as 'Silenus carrying the young Dionysus' (3rd century A.D., Musée du Louvre, Paris). Carlieri's paintings provided an important source of inspiration for Panini and for the capricci painters that followed (see D. R. Marshall, "The architectural piece in 1700: The paintings of Alberto Carlieri (1672-c.1720), pupil of Andrea Pozzo", in Artibus et historiae. An art anthology, IRSA, Vienne-Cracovie, 2004, no. 50, XXV, pp. 39-126).

We are grateful to Professor David R. Marshall for endorsing the attribution of the paintings to Alberto Carlieri on the basis of photographs.