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 Amorous Couple
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alessandro Magnasco, called Lissandrino
Genoa 1667 - 1749
An Amorous Couple
Point of the brush and gray wash, heightened with white on gray prepared paper
237 by 171 mm; 9 3/8 by 6 3/4 in
Related to a painting formerly in the collection of Benno Geiger (fig.1), in which, contrary to the present work, the shepherd appears to distance himself from the shepherdess, rather than embracing her.
The combination of media found in the O'Brien drawing, with its broad washes and abundant white heightening, is typical of Magnasco's highly distinctive graphic style and can be compared to other surviving drawings by the artist, two similar examples of which can be found in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna.1
1. See V. Birke & J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, vol. I, Munich 1991, pp. 187-188, figs. 226-227