Minerva expelling the vices

Details

Giacinto Calandrucci (Palermo 1646-1707)
Minerva expelling the vices
signed 'Caland/ ci'
red chalk, pen and brown ink
8½ x 14¼ in (21.8 x 36.2 cm.)

Provenance

J.-P.-V. Maziès (L. 1919).

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Lot Essay

This relates to a slightly more worked out study of the same composition for an unknown ceiling painting, now in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Inv. FP 2062; D. Graf, Die Handzeichnungen von Giacinto Calandrucci, Düsseldorf, 1986, I, no. 598, II, fig. 669). Two further studies for the project, showing Hercules and Minerva, are also in the same museum (Inv. FP 8998 and FP 13932; D. Graf, op. cit., nos. 599 and 600).

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