Lucio Massari (Bologna 1569-1633)

Angels and putti making music in the clouds: design for a vault

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Lucio Massari (Bologna 1569-1633)
Angels and putti making music in the clouds: design for a vault
with inscription 'Lodovico Carracci del/d'après la couppole/Peinte/d'Antonio da Coreggio f.'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized) on brown prepared paper in an inscribed lunette, watermark kneeling angel in a cartouche
20 1/8 x 15¾ in. (51 x 40.3 cm.)

Provenance

An unidentified collector's mark (L.2501c).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 43.

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Descriptif du lot

Comparable to a drawing formerly with Kate Ganz (see Master Drawings 1500-1900, 7, 1989, no. 7). The attribution of the Ganz drawing was proposed by Aidan Weston-Lewis and confirmed by Dr. Catherine Johnston. Dr. Babette Bohn confirmed the attribution of the present drawing to Massari when it appeared at auction in 1990.

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