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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN COLLECTION (LOTS 230, 232, 239, 241-43, 247-48, 251-53, 259, 354)

Antonio Balestra (Verona 1666-1740)

An angel in flight (recto); Studies of hands and a man seen from behind (verso); and An angel leaning down with upraised arm

Details

Antonio Balestra (Verona 1666-1740)
An angel in flight (recto); Studies of hands and a man seen from behind (verso); and An angel leaning down with upraised arm
numbered respectively '50' and '54' (upper left)
black chalk on blue paper, the second with watermark three crescents, unframed
16½ x 10½ in. (41.7 x 26.7 cm.)
two on one mount (2)

Exhibited

Vancouver, Art Gallery, and other locations, 18th Century Venetian Art in Canadian Collections, 1989-90, no. 39.

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Lot Essay

The angel in the drawing illustrated on the left appears, rotated 90 degrees to the right, in The Annunciation to Manoah in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich (L. Ghio and E. Baccheschi, Antonio Balestra, Bergamo, 1975, p. 256, fig. 1).

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