Alessandro Casolani
Madonna and Child in a landscape
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Alessandro Casolani
Siena 1552 - 1606
Madonna and Child in a landscape
Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk;
bears old attribution in brown ink, lower left: del Aliensi
195 by 149 mm; 7 3/4 by 5 7/8 in
With C. & J. Goodfriend, New York,
where acquired, 1990
where acquired, 1990
Though the present sheet bears an old attribution to the Greek painter Antonio Vassilacchi, called Aliense, an artist whose work was particularly indebted to his time in Venice and the Veneto, the handling is, in fact, far more reminiscent of artists active in Siena, such as Vincenzo Rustici or, even more plausibly, Alessandro Casolani.