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Carlo Donelli, Il Vimercati (c.1660-c.1715)

Study of the Body of Christ, turned to the right

Details
Carlo Donelli, Il Vimercati (c.1660-c.1715)
Study of the Body of Christ, turned to the right
with inscription 'Lanfranco' and numbered '3' (verso)
red chalk
415 x 283 mm.
Provenance
G. Vallardi (L. 1223).
G. Pacini (L. 2011).

Lot Essay

Comparable drawings by Vimercati are in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice (U. Ruggeri, Disegni Lombardi, Milan, 1982, nos. 150-2, illustrated), and in the Ambrosiana, Milan, A. Barigozzi and R. Bossaglia, Disegni del Settecento Lombardo, Vicenza, 1973, no. 97-8, illustrated. Three further drawings by Vimercati were exhibited at Colnaghi's, London, in 1989, no. 20, and at Jean-François Baroni's in Paris in 1991, nos. 19-20.
Vimercati was active in Milan and was a pupil of Ercole Proccacini the younger.

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