The Adoration of the Shepherds

Details

Gaspare Diziani (1689-1767)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary watermark and countermark three crescents
190 x 280 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 29 June 1971, lot 136.

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Lot Essay

A study for the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Kress Collection now at Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, A.P. Zugni-Tauro, Gaspare Diziani, Venice, 1976, pl. 173. Another study in the Albertina, although upright, reproduces all the major details of the composition such as the wheel in the foreground and the flying angel, V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, 1997, IV, no. 24053.

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