Italian Drawings from a Private Collection, USA
Sebastiano Conca
The Madonna and Child with Saints Filippo Neri and Nicola of Bari
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February 2, 06:41 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Italian Drawings from a Private Collection, USA
Sebastiano Conca
1680 - 1764
The Madonna and Child with Saints Filippo Neri and Nicola of Bari
Black chalk, arched top;
bears attribution in red pastel, verso: A. Carracci
281 by 173 mm; 11 by 6¾ in.
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1999, lot 40,
where acquired
This is a preparatory study with differences for Conca's altarpiece, commissioned circa 1743 by the Neapolitan cardinal Tommaso Ruffo, for his chapel, designed by Nicola Salvi, in the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso, Naples. A second drawing by Conca, with many compositional similarities to the present lot, was sold at Sotheby's London in 1999.1 Both drawings bear the same old attribution to Carracci and share a similar format and high degree of finish and are perhaps the models from which the final altarpiece was chosen.
1. See Provenance; Sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1999, lot 39