Pietro de Angelis

M. Guillaume, Catalogue des Dessins Italiens: Collections du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon 2004, p. 24, under no. 5 (for Primavera and Medicina only)

All four drawings are in very good condition with the medium remaining fresh and vibrant. Slightly visible in some of the drawings is a faint mark at the corners of the sheet where it was previously laid down. However apart from a few tiny marks/stains, all four sheets are in good condition. All four are sold in gilded frames.
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Little is known about Pietro de Angelis and it is even uncertain whether he was from Rome or Venice.  Stylistically, he is aware of Venetian draughtsmanship and his works appear to be influenced by Pietro Antonio Novelli (1729-1804).  The tracing in black chalk on the verso of the Allegory of Medicina could perhaps indicate that these were intended as a set of prints and that de Angelis was trying to view the figure in reverse.

A design for a ceiling decoration, Ceres in her Chariot, which is signed by de Angelis, is comparable to these in the use of pen and grey ink and wash and vibrant watercolour.¹

1. Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 1998, lot 216