Christ at the column

Details

Michelangelo Ricciolini (Rome 1654-1715 Frascati)
Christ at the column
with numbers on the mount in ink '29' (upper right), '21' (lower right)
red chalk
16 ½ x 10 5/8 in. (41.9 x 26.9 cm)

Provenance

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Rome (1717-1799), with associated number '129' on the mount (from the third album of his collection, School of Maratti).
Vincenzo Pacetti, Rome (1746-1820); his son Michelangelo Pacetti, Rome (b. 1793-1855) (L. 2057).
Kupferstichkabinett, Königliches Museum, Berlin, 1846 and deaccessioned after 1945.
Theodore Allen Heinrich (1910-1981); Sotheby's, London, 30 April 1990, lot 87 (as attributed to Michelangelo Ricciolini).

Lot Essay

Formerly part of an album of drawings assembled by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi and acquired by the Roman sculptor Vincenzo Pacetti, this powerful nude relates to two drawings by Ricciolini also formerly in the Cavaceppi-Pacetti collection now in the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome (G. Fusconi, 'Frammenti della collezione di disegni Cavaceppi-Pacetti', Per Luigi Grassi. Disegno e disegni, Rimini 1998, nos. 3-4, ill.). A pupil of Maratti, the artist was never officially enrolled in the Accademia di San Luca, but his skillful draftsmanship appears strongly inspired by the principles of the Accademia. We are grateful to Giulia Fusconi for her assistance.

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