Lot 98
  • 98

Etienne Parrocel

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Etienne Parrocel
  • Allegory of Painting
  • Black chalk heightened with white chalk
  • 16 1/8 x 11 inches

Condition

Window mounted. Overall in good condition. A few scattered fox marks and some creases in the paper. There is a small brown stain at the upper left hand corner of the sheet and another small brown stain by her elbow where the drapery folds around her arm. The medium remains very fresh.
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Catalogue Note

This study of a female figure is very similiar in style and technique to Parrocel's A Seated Angel holding a Stick1 which is a prepartory drawing for his painting, S. Carlo Borromeo praying for an end to the plague in Milan in 1567, in the church of Santa Prassede, RomeBoth studies share the same sketch-like quality and linear shading.

1.  Sale, Monaco, Christie's, 20 June 1992, lot 272