Eliodoro Forbicini (1533-after 1590)

Caricatures of drunken Soldiers carousing

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Eliodoro Forbicini (1533-after 1590)
Caricatures of drunken Soldiers carousing
with inscriptions 'n^o 4' (recto) and 'forbicini ...' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark encircled device, ink gall damages
150 x 281 mm.

Provenance

Nicos Dhikeos (his mark, not in Lugt).

Lot Essay

Vasari mentions Forbicini as 'particularly able for grotesques' and that he worked with India at the grotesque decoration of the Palazzo Canossa and Palazzo Thiene. Forbicini also decorated the Villa Capra in Vicenza.

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