Lot 27
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Provenance
1st Earl of Leicester, his mount with the attribution 'Pietro da Cortona' in William Kent's (?) hand
Literature
G. Briganti, Pietro da Cortona o della pittura barocca, Florence, 1962, p. 304
M. Chiarini, I disegni italiani di paesaggio dal 1600 al 1750, Treviso, 1972, pp. 39-40
H. Brigstocke, A Pietro da Cortona landscape for Edinburgh, The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, 1980, p. 345
G. Briganti, Pietro da Cortona o della pittura barocca, Florence, 1982, p. 290
A.E. Popham and C.E. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings at Holkham Hall, Chicago, 1986, no. 105
Exhibited
London, Arts Council, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of the Earl of Leicester, 1948, no. 5
Norwich, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings lent by the Earl of Leicester, 1949, no. 3
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., Old Master Drawings from Holkham, 1977, no. 46, illustrated

Lot Essay

This and the following drawing are rare examples of Pietro da Cortona's landscape drawing. Chiarini suggests that both date from the period of Cortona's frescoes in Villa Sacchetti, Castelfusano of 1626-9. The delicate, flickering brushwork especially evident in the treatment of foliage in this drawing is comparable with that in two frescoes in the chapel at Castelfusano, Christ and the Woman of Samaria and The Baptism of Christ, G. Briganti, op. cit., 1982, figs. 76-8. Both the technique and the composition with numerous cascades are paralleled in a drawing at Windsor attributed to Pietro da Cortona by John Gere, E. Schilling and A. Blunt, The German Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1971, no. 347, pl. 40. Landscape drawings of the same period previously attributed to the school of Pietro da Cortona, but now generally accepted as autograph are at Edinburgh, K. Andrews, National Gallery of Scotland Catalogue of Italian Drawings, Cambridge, 1968, I, p. 92, 642-3

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