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

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Gregorio de Ferrari

Madonna of Loreto Appearing to SS. Augustine and Paul

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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Gregorio de Ferrari

Porto Maurizio, Imperia 1647 - 1726 Genoa

Madonna of Loreto Appearing to SS. Augustine and Paul


Pen and brown ink and blue-gray wash over black chalk, heightened with white, on faded blue paper

324 by 235 mm; 12 3/4 by 9 1/4 in

Enrico Cortona has kindly informed us that a very similar composition, including more saints, is used in Gregorio de Ferrari's altarpiece in the parish church at Pieve di Teco (Imperia).
Ian Woodner,
his sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1991, lot 113;
with Galerie Moatti, Paris,
where acquired, 1973
M. Newcome, 'Notes on Gregorio de Ferrari and the Genoese Baroque,' Pantheon, 1979, p. 149, no. 27;
G. Gruitrooy, Gregorio de Ferrari, diss. Berlin, 1987, pp. 466-67;
Disegno, Italiano Antico, Milan 1994, pp. 128-9, reproduced;
M. Newcome Schleier, Gregorio de Ferrari, Turin, 1998, p. 179 cat. no. D85, reproduced p. 180, fig. D85;

New York, William H. Schab Gallery, Los Angeles, County Museum and Indianapolis, Museum of Art, Woodner Collection II, Old Master Drawings from XV to the XVIII Century, 1973, no. 61