Lot Essay
The traditional attribution to Cades has not been accepted by Maria Teresa Caracciolo on the basis of a digital photograph. We are grateful for her assistance in cataloguing this drawing.
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A seated girl reading
Details
Attributed to Giuseppe Cades (Rome 1750-1799)
A seated girl reading
with inscription ‘Cades’
black chalk, brown wash
17 x 13 3/8 in. (43.4 x 33.9 cm.)
A seated girl reading
with inscription ‘Cades’
black chalk, brown wash
17 x 13 3/8 in. (43.4 x 33.9 cm.)
Provenance
P. Hermann (L. 1352a).
Bernhard Himmelheber, and by descent to the present owner.
Bernhard Himmelheber, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
G. Casanova (Chevalier de Seignalt), Die Bilder aus: Geschichte meines Lebens, Vermischte Schriften, Gesammelte Briefe, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, 1964, p. 236, ill. (as Giuseppe Cades).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Zeichnungen Alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, 1965, no. 50, pl. 109 (as Giuseppe Cades; catalogue by A. Hentzen and W. Stubbe).
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