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
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Il Baciccio
Study for The Birth of St. John the Baptist
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Il Baciccio
Genoa 1639 - 1709 Rome
Study for The Birth of St. John the Baptist
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk, top corners cut;
bears numbering in brown ink, lower right: d.157 and on the mount, verso: W.3.
366 by 274 mm; 14 3/8 by 10 3/4 in
Padre Resta (1635-1714), Milan;
John Lord Somers (1650-1715), London (L.2981, his numbering d.157);
James Rambo, San Francisco;
Parke-Bernet, New York, 1981
John Lord Somers (1650-1715), London (L.2981, his numbering d.157);
James Rambo, San Francisco;
Parke-Bernet, New York, 1981
Walter Vitzthum, A Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections, Regina and Montreal, 1970, cat. no. 67
F. Petrucci, Baciccio. Giovan Battista Gaulli 1639-1709, Rome 2009, p. 547, under cat. no. C22a.
F. Petrucci, Baciccio. Giovan Battista Gaulli 1639-1709, Rome 2009, p. 547, under cat. no. C22a.