Lot Essay
Fuhring advanced the attribution based on comparisons with prints from his Ornamenti Diversi (1782), Alcune Decorazione di Nobile Sale (1787) and the Miscellanea per i Giovani Studiosi del Disegno of 1796
Details
Giocondo Albertolli (1742-1839)
A Ceiling with a central Medallion and a Frieze with Eagles, Putti and a Lion (recto); The Corner of a Ceiling with Panels decorated with Acanthus (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
252 x 453mm.
A Ceiling with a central Medallion and a Frieze with Eagles, Putti and a Lion (recto); The Corner of a Ceiling with Panels decorated with Acanthus (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
252 x 453mm.
Literature
P. Fuhring, no. 330
Exhibited
Oberlin, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, A New World. Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, 1986, no. 2