Alexander presenting Campaspe to Apelles

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Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686-1775)
Alexander presenting Campaspe to Apelles
with inscriptions 'Carlone', '60' and 'A'
pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, in an inscribed rectangle, watermark Strasburg lily over WR
242 x 315 mm.

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Lot Essay

A drawing, with differences, for Carlone's ceiling fresco in the Ahnengalerie at Schloss Ludwigsburg, P.O. Krückmann, Carlo Carlone, 1686-1775, Der Ansbacher Auftrag, exhib. cat., Residenz Ansbach, 1990, fig. 165. A modello for the fresco is in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, P.O. Krückmann, op. cit., no. 13, fig. 164.

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