Giovanni Battista Vanni (1599-1660)

A man in a cloak

Details

Giovanni Battista Vanni (1599-1660)
A man in a cloak
a partial tracing of the man's cloak and a faint caricature of a man, both in red chalk, verso, and with inscription 'Giam.ta Vanni'
black chalk
398 x 276 mm.

Provenance

Sigismondo and Giovanni Coccapani (L.2729, as unidentified), and by descent to Giovanni's son,
Regolo Silverio Coccapani.
Probably dispersed with the rest of the Coccapani collection in the third quarter of the 17th Century.
Dr. Ludwig Pollak (L.788b).

Lot Essay

The attribution has been confirmed to the present owner by Francesca Baldassari, who dates the sheet to circa 1650. Two comparable unpublished studies of the same subject and technique are in the Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome (inv. no. FC128736 and FC128758), and another, of a seated draped model, is in the Nasjonalgalleriet in Oslo (inv. no. B15120).

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