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.
Vimercati was active in Milan and was a pupil of Ercole Proccacini the younger.