Lot 45
45
Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (Florence circa 1615-after 1669 Rome)
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Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (Florence circa 1615-after 1669 Rome)

A putto riding on the back of a sea-monster

Details
Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (Florence circa 1615-after 1669 Rome)
A putto riding on the back of a sea-monster
with inscriptions 'Di Giovan Batista Gallestruzzi f200', 'No42/Jell' and 'Fiori nel 1652' on the mount
black chalk, pen and brown ink
11 1/8 x 16¾ in. (284 x 424 mm.)
Provenance
J. Gulston (?) (L. 474), with shelfmark 'L56-1-0' on the mount.
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Lot Essay

Galestruzzi trained in Florence in the studio of Francesco Furini before moving to Rome, where he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1652. Two pictures by him are known, but etchings form the greater part of his surviving output, many strongly influenced by Stefano della Bella, who may have instructed him in printmaking. The present drawing is close in both feeling and handling to Galestruzzi's etched series of Tritons and Sea Monsters (Bartsch 21-38).

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