A study for a frieze decorated with a landscape and young satyrs holding a garland and supporting a medallion depicting Diana

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Agostino Tassi (c.1580-1644)
A study for a frieze decorated with a landscape and young satyrs holding a garland and supporting a medallion depicting Diana
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper
100 x 340 mm.

Provenance

Henri Delacroix, his stamp (not in Lugt); Paris, 31 March 1962, lot 231 (100FF).

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Lot Essay

Similar friezes are in the Palazzo del Quirinal datable to 1617, in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj of 1635 and the Palazzo Lancelotti, Rome, seat of Christie's Italy. Comparable drawings are in the Louvre and the Uffizi.

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