Pietro Berrettini da Cortona (1596-1669)

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Pietro Berrettini da Cortona (1596-1669)

Caligula making his Horse Incitatus a Consul

red chalk, pen and brown ink, the sheet extended at the right and a lower section cut and replaced by the artist
90 x 165mm.

Provenance

An 18th Century collector's mount with inscription '5/N. 39'
Rudolf S. Joseph; Christie's, New York, 14 January 1986, lot 44, illustrated ($1,430)

Lot Essay

Jörg Merz dates this sheet 1635-40, he suggests that the drawing of a statue which is on a separate sheet may be preparatory for the tapestry of the Statue of Constantine of 1636 now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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