A soldier standing before a seated woman holding a letter; and The Apostles Peter and John healing a Cripple

Details

Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (Venice 1707-1769)
A soldier standing before a seated woman holding a letter; and The Apostles Peter and John healing a Cripple
with numbers '15' and '12'
black chalk, pen and brown ink
15 x 10½ in. (378 x 266 mm.) (2)

Provenance

with Meatyard, London, 1920.
Anonymous sale; Paris, 20 October 1988, lot 91.

Literature

M. Magrini, 'Francesco Fontebasso - I Disegni', Saggi e memorie, 1990, 17, nos. 135-136, figs. 147-148.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

These two sheets are from an album of at least 55 drawings by Fontebasso which was broken up before 1920. The drawings from the group are easily identified as they are all drawn on ledger paper with vertical ruled lines in black chalk running down the margins. Other pages from the album are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (J. Bean and W. Griswold, Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 47), Princeton, the British Museum, the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi and in San Francisco.

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