Lot Essay
For the picture of A Woman sleeping in Bologna's communal collections, R. Roli, Donato Creti, Milano, 1967, no. 28, fig. 58. The only difference between the two compositions it the absence of the putto in the picture.
The picture is part of a series of 'otto quadri, da por sopra porte, dipinti a chiaroscuro, e in ciascun d'essi v'ha un nudo quasi grande al naturale; quattro di maschi, e quatro di femmine, e tutti rappresentati con somma onestà', Giampietro Zanotti, Storia dell'Academia Clementina di Bologna, Bologna, 1739. They were painted in tempera for Marcantonio Collina Sbaraglia in the 1720s and given to the city of Bologna in 1744.
Another drawing for the same picture is in the Koenig-Fachsenfeld collection, Unbekannte Handzeichnungen alter Meister - Sammlung Freiherr Koenig-Fachsenfeld, exhib. cat., Stuttgart, 1967, no. 59, illustrated.
The picture is part of a series of 'otto quadri, da por sopra porte, dipinti a chiaroscuro, e in ciascun d'essi v'ha un nudo quasi grande al naturale; quattro di maschi, e quatro di femmine, e tutti rappresentati con somma onestà', Giampietro Zanotti, Storia dell'Academia Clementina di Bologna, Bologna, 1739. They were painted in tempera for Marcantonio Collina Sbaraglia in the 1720s and given to the city of Bologna in 1744.
Another drawing for the same picture is in the Koenig-Fachsenfeld collection, Unbekannte Handzeichnungen alter Meister - Sammlung Freiherr Koenig-Fachsenfeld, exhib. cat., Stuttgart, 1967, no. 59, illustrated.