Ludovico Mattioli
Landscape with Travelers
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ludovico Mattioli
Crevalcore 1662 - 1747 Bologna
Landscape with Travelers
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk, on three joined sheets of paper;
signed(?) and numbered(?) in brown ink, lower right: LodovicoM... 1629
324 by 249 mm; 12 3/4 by 9 3/4 in
Though better known as one of the leading engravers active in Bologna in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the present work is a fine example of Mattioli's work as a draughtsman.
Comparable sheets by the artist, in which the same meticulous handling is so clearly evident, can be found in the Uffizi, Florence, the Royal Collection, Windsor and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.1
1. See A. Czére, "Francesco Bosio, Ludovico Mattioli, and Antonio Maria Monti: Eighteenth-Century Bolognese Landscape Drawings", Master Drawings, vol. 29, no. 4, figs. 13, 15, 17, 19 and 21