Marcantonio Franceschini (Bologna 1648-1729)
Marcantonio Franceschini (Bologna 1648-1729)

Rachel and Leah in a landscape

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Marcantonio Franceschini (Bologna 1648-1729)
Rachel and Leah in a landscape
red chalk
10¼ x 10 7/8 in. (362 x 275 mm.)

拍品專文

Dwight Miller suggested, on the basis of a photograph, that Franceschini executed this drawing in preparation for a print by F.A. Meloni (D.C. Miller, Marcantonio Franceschini, Turin, 2001, p. 351, fig. 8). The composition of the print itself relates to a painting by Franceschini now in the collection of the Banco Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna in Modena, painted in the last year of the artist's life (D.C. Miller, op. cit., no. 122b). In the present drawing Franceschini adjusted the position of Leah's right arm, a change Meloni followed in his print.