Bacchus and Ariadne - a pair of bozzetti

Details

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (Scaria 1686-1775 Como)
Bacchus and Ariadne - a pair of bozzetti
oil on canvas
9 x 16 1/8 in. (22.8 x 41 cm.)
(2)a pair

Provenance

Lord Gerald Wellesley (1885-1972), later 7th Duke of Wellington (according to a label on the reverse).
with Hazlitt Gallery, London, by 1962.

Literature

A. B. Brini, Carlo Innocenzo Carloni, Milan, 1967, pp. 120 and 124 (in the latter with erroneous measurements).

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Lot Essay

These preparatory sketches relate to Carlone's frescoes for Palazzo Agliardi, Bergamo, which date to circa 1750.

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