A wooded river landscape, after Pietro Testa

Details

Attibuted to Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774)
A wooded river landscape, after Pietro Testa
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
224 x 327 mm.

Literature

C. von Prybram-Gladona, Unbekannte Zeichnungen alter Meister aus europäischem Privatbesitz, Munich, 1969, no. 65 (as Pietro Testa).

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Lot Essay

A copy after Testa's drawing from Mariette's collection, now in the Louvre, R. Bacou, I grandi disegni italiani della Collezione Mariette al Louvre di Parigi, Milan, n.d., fig. 35. A drawing by Mariette after Annibale Carracci is in the Louvre, R. Bacou, op. cit., fig. 6. Similar drawings by Mariette are documented in his sales of 1775-6.

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