Nicolà Maria Rossi (1699-1755)

A bishop saint hovering over a pagan sacrifice

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Nicolà Maria Rossi (1699-1755)
A bishop saint hovering over a pagan sacrifice
with inscription 'Luc Jordano'
black and white chalk, pen and brown ink, blue wash, squared in black chalk in an inscribed oval
315 x 222 mm.; and an early 18th Century Bolognese School drawing of the Pietà (2)

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Similar drawings by Rossi are in the Prado (M.B. Mena Marquès, Dibujos Italianos del siglo XVIII, Madrid, 1990, fig. 251), in the Museo Cerralbo, Madrid (C. Sanz Pastor y Fernandez de Pierola, Museo Cerralbo, catalogo de dibujos, Madrid, 1976, no. 91, as Nicolas Loir) and in the Louvre.

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