Giuseppe Rolli
St Paul preaching in the Areopagus, Athens
No reserve
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Lot Details
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Giuseppe Rolli
Bologna 1645-1727
St Paul preaching in the Areopagus, Athens
bears an old attribution by a later hand, lower right: A. Pozzo; also bears numbering, top left: N1979 (in brown ink), Vo (in brown ink), and Num XV (in black ink);
pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, squared for transfer
412 x 257 mm
Johann Goll van Franckenstein (1722-1785), Amsterdam (L. 2987);
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome(?);
Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston (L. 1860c), c. 1904;
with Seiferheld and Co., New York (according to the label);
Janos Scholtz (1903-1993), New York (L. 2933b), c. 1963;
with James Starkey Galleries, Beverley;
private collection, Yorkshire;
with Day & Faber, London, 2017.
Dr F. De’Maffei, "Un disegno di Giuseppe Rolli per il soffitto della Chiesa di S. Peolo a Bologna", Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Mario Salmi, Rome, 1963, III, pp. 325 - 29, fig. 1;
E. Feinblatt, "Notes on Some Bolognese Drawings", Master Drawings, 1976, XIV, no. 3, pp. 274-277, fig. 5;
E. Feinblatt, "Some Drawings by Giuseppe Rolli Identified", Master Drawings, 1982, XX, no. 1, p. 26.
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