Donato Creti (Cremona 1671-1749 Bologna)

A patrician family kneeling on a seashore experiencing a vision of the Madonna and Child and Saint Dominic, Saint John the Baptist and another saint, a ship seen beyond

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Donato Creti (Cremona 1671-1749 Bologna)
A patrician family kneeling on a seashore experiencing a vision of the Madonna and Child and Saint Dominic, Saint John the Baptist and another saint, a ship seen beyond
with inscription 'Sig Donato Creti' (verso)
pen and brown ink, watermark Orfini arms
9 x 12½ in. (227 x 318 mm.)

拍品专文

The maritime theme is unusual in Creti's work, not least because of Bologna's geographical position. The drawing may, however, be related to a painting of Saint Francis Xavier commending seafarers to the Madonna dated circa 1705-08, commissioned by the Accademia degli Argonauti del Collegio dei Nobili and now in the Communal Collection, Bologna (R. Roli, Donato Creti, Milan, 1967, no. 13, pl. 10).