Lot Essay
A study for the figure on the left side of The Nativity in the Duomo, Padua painted for Cardinal Cornaro, Bishop of Padua in 1708, M. Polazzo, Antonio Balestra, Verona, 1978, no. 15
Details
Antonio Balestra (1666-1740)
A Shepherd holding a Sheep on his Shoulder (recto); Studies of a Nude, half length, and four hands (verso)
numbered '15:6'; black chalk (recto), red chalk (verso), on blue paper
425 x 280mm.
A Shepherd holding a Sheep on his Shoulder (recto); Studies of a Nude, half length, and four hands (verso)
numbered '15:6'; black chalk (recto), red chalk (verso), on blue paper
425 x 280mm.
Exhibited
Vancouver, Art Gallery, Quebec, Musée du Québec and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 18th Century Venetian Art in Canadian Collections, 1989, no. 40