Il Pseudo-Sassi
(Ca. 1700) Acrobats, swinging around a post, pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on laid paper, inscribed “Castiglione” in pen and brown ink at lower left margin, numbered “57LW” in blue chalk on the reverse, 34,4x 24,8 cm, mounted, unframed, (Sch)
Provenance: New York, Sotheby’s, 16th January 1985, Lot 268 (as “Italian school, ca. 1600”).
The present drawing is comparable with a group of pen drawings in the collection Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, of which several bear the attribution to „Sassi“. It had been assumed, that the Lombard artist Giovanni Battista Sassi who was active in Naples and Milan between1713 and 1747, may have been the draftsman of the Bergamo sheets. However the style of these drawings differs from the known ones attributed to G.B. Sassi in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Milan.The author of the Bergamo sheets was named „Pseudo-Sassi“ by Carlo Ragghianti, who lauded the artist’s rich inventions, his powerful compositions and his tirelessly graphic manner. The present sheet is stylistically particularly comparable with the drawings „Crucfixion“ and „Aeneas and Anchises“ in the Bergamo collection.
Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546
astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at
02.04.2015 - 17:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 2,000.- to EUR 2,400.-
Il Pseudo-Sassi
(Ca. 1700) Acrobats, swinging around a post, pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on laid paper, inscribed “Castiglione” in pen and brown ink at lower left margin, numbered “57LW” in blue chalk on the reverse, 34,4x 24,8 cm, mounted, unframed, (Sch)
Provenance: New York, Sotheby’s, 16th January 1985, Lot 268 (as “Italian school, ca. 1600”).
The present drawing is comparable with a group of pen drawings in the collection Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, of which several bear the attribution to „Sassi“. It had been assumed, that the Lombard artist Giovanni Battista Sassi who was active in Naples and Milan between1713 and 1747, may have been the draftsman of the Bergamo sheets. However the style of these drawings differs from the known ones attributed to G.B. Sassi in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Milan.The author of the Bergamo sheets was named „Pseudo-Sassi“ by Carlo Ragghianti, who lauded the artist’s rich inventions, his powerful compositions and his tirelessly graphic manner. The present sheet is stylistically particularly comparable with the drawings „Crucfixion“ and „Aeneas and Anchises“ in the Bergamo collection.
Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546
astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 02.04.2015 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 26.03. - 02.04.2015 |