Attributed to Francesco Albani

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Francesco Albani
Design for a commemorative frontispiece with eagles clutching a heraldic sheild, jupiter and a female allegorical figure, the city of bologna below
Pen and brown ink and wash;
the verso bears numbering: N^o 124 and two poetic verses with a latin motto: Sic as ethera tendunt / Sic Hutis Justitia Justus

Provenance

Dr. Arthur Feldmann, Brno;
looted by the Gestapo,
deposited at the Moravska Galerie, Brno (inventory number 3181),
restituted to the heirs of Arthur Feldmann in 2003

Exhibited

Brno, Moravská Galerie, Italská kresba a malba 16.-19.století, 1998, no. 1 (as Albani)

Catalogue Note

With five other Italian drawings from the Feldmann Collection, all bearing the mark of the Moravian Provincial Museum, Brno (not in Lugt):

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Landscape with a woman seated on a rock, Pen and brown ink, 211 by 304 mm; Feldmann/Brno inv. no. 3212;
Attributed to Carpione, Head of a Satyr, Black and red chalk, 126 by 117 mm, B. Jolles (L. 381); inv. no. 3265
Francesco Simonini, Pen and grey ink, 154 by 255 mm; Military encampment, inv. no. 3200
Veronese School, Dancing putto, Pen and brown ink on paper washed red, two sketches of angels in brown ink, verso, 94 by 51 mm, inv. no. 3205
Il Falsario, Half-length study of a man, Pen and brown ink, 181 by 152 mm; inv. no. 3274, published in P. Bagni, Il Guercino e il suo Falsario, Bologna 1990, cat. no. 190