An extensive wooded landscape with a muleteer on a path and card-players in the foreground, a fortified town beyond, after Grimaldi

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Michel Corneille II (1642-1708)
An extensive wooded landscape with a muleteer on a path and card-players in the foreground, a fortified town beyond, after Grimaldi
with inscriptions 'Titiano ou Campagnola', 'de Bolognese', 'Dominiquin' and 'G' on the mount
black chalk, pen and brown ink
282 x 421 mm.

Provenance

E. Jabach, part of his mount.
An unidentified collector's mark (L. 480, twice).
Baron F.A. de Malaussena (L. 1887), his number '36'.

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Lot Essay

A copy by Corneille after a drawing by Grimaldi in the Louvre, Paris. Other versions of the Grimaldi drawing are in the Louvre and in the British Museum, London, N. Turner, Roman Baroque Drawings, c. 1620 to c. 1700, London, 1999, no. 144(47). Grimaldi also etched the composition in reverse (Bartsch XIX, 46).
Michel Corneille engraved the composition as Annibale Carracci for the Recueil Jabach, a collection of prints after landscapes by the Carracci in Jabach's own collection.

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