A classical landscape with figures

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Felice Giani (San Sebastiano Curone 1758-1823 Rome)
A classical landscape with figures
with inscriptions 'F.G.' and 'Giardini francese Veneziano 1723' and with another partly legible inscription '.......Accadamia....'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, brown ink borderline
15 3/8 x 20½ in. (39 x 52 cm.)

Provenance

A. Prada (L. 3773; verso).
An unidentified collector's mark.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Anna Ottani Cavina for confirming the attribution to Giani on the basis of a photograph. She dates the work to about 1812/13 and relates it to a group of drawings by him for the decoration of a villa in Montmorency, France. Giani was commissioned to decorate the villa by Count Antonio Aldini (1755-1826), then Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Italy. For other drawings from this period see A. Ottani Canvini, Felice Giani (1758-1823) e la cultura di fine secolo / Anna Ottani Cavina, 1999, II, pp. 552-553, nos. 757-759.

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