A satyr watching a Bacchanalian dance

Details

VENETIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
A satyr watching a Bacchanalian dance
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
8 ¼ x 14 1⁄8 in. (21 x 36 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 1969, lot 38 (as Pietro Antonio Novelli).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 19 June 1973, lot 88 (as attributed to Gaetano Zompini).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 20 January 1982, lot 24 (as Gaetano Zompini).

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Lot Essay

This drawing was attributed to Pietro Novelli and later to Gaetano Zompini, a Venetian artist deeply influenced by Sebastiano Ricci. The style of the composition, however, is different, and of higher quality, than the few known drawings by Zompini. The subject of the dance recalls Poussin’s painting with A Bacchanalian revel before a Term in London (NG 62; see H. Wine, National Gallery Catalogues. The Seventeenth Century French Paintings, London, 2001, pp. 288-295).

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