Crescenzio Onofri (1632-c.1712)

An extensive wooded landscape with a church and a lake in the distance

Details

Crescenzio Onofri (1632-c.1712)
An extensive wooded landscape with a church and a lake in the distance
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark encircled paschal lamb over A B
353 x 460 mm.

Provenance

with P.& D. Colnaghi, 1962.
Stiftung Ratjen, no. 588.

Exhibited

Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and elsewhere, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts, 1977, no. 85.

Lot Essay

Comparable to three drawings by Onofri in the British Museum, London, N. Turner, Roman Baroque Drawings, c.1620 to c.1700, London, 1999, nos. 237-9. Other landscapes by this artist are at Holkham, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Prado, Madrid and in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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