From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
An Abbot Saint, possibly St. Anthony of Egypt, surrounded by peasants, discovering a spring
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giuseppe Passeri
Rome 1654 - 1714
An Abbot Saint, possibly St. Anthony of Egypt, surrounded by peasants, discovering a spring
Pen and brown ink and gray wash and red chalk and wash, heightened with white;
circular;
bears old attribution in brown ink, lower centre: Gioseffo Passari
Diameter: 260 mm; 10 1/4 in
Executed in Passeri's favored and highly distinctive combination of media, in which energetic red chalk underdrawing is coupled with brown ink and wash, followed by the liberal application of luminous white heightening, the present sheet is a quintessential example of the artist's graphic style.
Comparable sheets can be found in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna,1 as well as the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, where the vast majority of the artist's surviving drawn oeuvre is housed.
1. V. Birke & J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Generalverzeichnis, vol. I (Inv. 1-1200), Vienna 1994, pp. 574-580