Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725)

Details
Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725)

A Wall Fountain of four Levels of Shells with Hippocamps holding a Dolphin

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark beehive
200 x 180mm.
Literature
P. Fuhring, no. 852

Lot Essay

Comparable studies are in the Uffizi, (L. Monaci, Disegni di Giovanni Battista Foggini, Florence, 1977, nos. 23-8, illustrated), and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Bean, 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, nos. 179-80, both illustrated