Carlo Alberto Baratta
Study for the Presentation of the Virgin
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Carlo Alberto Baratta
Genoa 1754 - 1815
Study for the Presentation of the Virgin
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache over black chalk on blue-green prepared paper, within black chalk and ink framing lines;
bears attribution in pen and black ink, lower center: Carlo Baratta
420 by 274 mm; 16 3/8 by 10 3/4 in
Santo Varni, Genoa 1887;
Private Collection, London;
with Flavia Ormond, London,
where acquired, circa 1994
Sale, Milan, Finarte, 21 April 1975, lot 242
The Art Newspaper, July/September 1994, p. 36
M. Newcome Schleier, ‘Several drawings and paintings by Baratta, the last gasp of the Genoese baroque’, Paragone, September 2013, pp. 58-62