Simone Cantarini, il Pesarese (1612-1648)

Eliezer meeting Rebecca and Eliezer drinking from Rebecca's jar

Details

Simone Cantarini, il Pesarese (1612-1648)
Eliezer meeting Rebecca and Eliezer drinking from Rebecca's jar
with inscriptions 'Cantarini da Pesaro (recto, erased) and 'Simone da Pesaro' on the mount
red chalk
250 x 196 mm.

Provenance

H. Vaughan (L. 1380a), with numbering 'N 294'.

Lot Essay

Two drawings of this subject are in the large collection of drawings by Cantarini in Rio de Janeiro, A.M. Ambrosini in Disegni italiani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Rio de Janeiro, Pesaro, 1995, nos. 77-8. Anna Colombi Ferretti mentions a picture of the same subject in the Zani collection in Bologna in 1671, A. Colombi Ferretti, 'Simone Cantarini' in La scuola di Guido Reni, Modena, 1992, p. 128.

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