Luigi Ademollo (1764-1849)

Details

Luigi Ademollo (1764-1849)

A Chariot Race in a Roman Arena: Design for the Safety Curtain of the Teatro della Pergola, Florence

black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolour and bodycolour
488 x 488mm.

Provenance

Apolloni, 1973

Literature

P. Fuhring, no. 204

Exhibited

Oberlin, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, A New World. Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, 1986, no. 1

Lot Essay

The attribution was first suggested by Roeland Kollewijn. The composition recalls a fresco painted by Ademollo in the Villa Davanzati, Florence and a series of engravings after his designs in the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan. It is particularly close to the engraving of 1794 done by Ademollo after his own drawing of 1788 for the safety curtain of the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, which showed charioteers racing around an obelisk