Old Master & British Drawings Sale

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Lot 57
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Domenico Caresana

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Domenico Caresana
  • an angel holding a scroll
  • Point of the brush and brown wash heightened with white over black chalk on grey-blue paper, squared in black chalk;
    indistinctly inscribed on the scroll with point of the brush and brown ink: Qui[d nomen] est sup[er meum] nome[n]

Provenance

W. Mayor (L.2799);
sale, New York, Christie's, 22 January 2004, lot 19

Literature

W. Mayor, A Brief Chronological Description of Original Drawings and Sketches by the most celebrated masters ... formed by ... W. Mayor, London 1875, no. 342 (as Giovanni Lanfranco, for a painting in S. Andrea della Valle).

Condition

Top right margin missing and made up. Paper slightly faded. Two creases at the top in the paper . A few very small spots of brown ink at the bottom left . Some surface dirt and few other very small spots on both sides of the figure. Overall in quite good condition.
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Catalogue Note

In 2004 Professor Giulio Bora pointed out that this drawing is preparatory for the figure of an angel in Caresana's fresco of The Holy Trinity in Glory (1614) in the vault of S. Orsola, Como.1  Caresana's first master was his uncle Giovanni Battista Tarilli, with whom he worked in Giornico, north of Lugano.  After 1594 he worked in the Duomo and S. Maria Passerella, Milan, and is also recorded in the Ticino, around Lake Como and in the Val Chiavenna.  His surviving works are very much in the tradition of Gaudenzio Ferrari and Camillo Procaccini.  Only two other drawings by Caresana have been identified, both in the same technique as the present drawing: studies for his Assumption of the Virgin in S. Federico, Como.2

1. M. Gregori, et al., Pittura a Como e nel Canton Ticino: dal Mille al Settecento, Milan 1994, fig. 93

2. G. Bora, 'Due secoli d'arte a Milano: La pittura in Santa Maria della Passione', Santa Maria della Passione e il Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi a Milano, Milan 1981, p. 161