Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (1709-1769)

The Descent from the Cross

Details

Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (1709-1769)
The Descent from the Cross
black chalk, pen and red-brown ink, red-brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized)
181/8 x 127/8 in. (460 x 326 mm.)

Provenance

Tétard, according to an inscription 'Mr tétard. rue de provence 58' on the backing.
with P. & D. Colnaghi, no. A22394.

Literature

M. Magrini, 'Francesco Fontebasso - I Disegni', Saggi e memorie, 1990, 17, pp. 178 and 371, fig. 118.

Lot Essay

One of a series of finished drawings of religious subjects, F. Magrini, op. cit., figs. 102-129. A variation on the same subject is in the Correr Museum and another similar drawing of the Entombment is in the Albertina, V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1994, Inv. 1874.

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