Guillaume Courtois, Guglielmo Cortese (1621-1676)
A bearded man kneeling
numbered '3'
red and white chalk on grey paper, corners cut
410 x 258 mm.
Provenance
Paolo Filocamo, his inscription.
The Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz.
Literature
Arte XIII, 1910, p. 296.
Emporium XXV, 1912, p. 221.
Lot Essay
Filocamo was an artist from Messina who died in 1743. Some of his drawings are in Darmstadt, J. Simane, Neapolitanische Barokzeichnungen, Darmstadt, 1994, nos. 29-32.