An extensive landscape, with travelers and their animals fording a river

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CARLO ANTONIO TAVELLA, IL SOLFAROLA (MILAN 1668-1738 GENOA)
An extensive landscape, with travelers and their animals fording a river
numbered ‘3.’ (upper right); and with inscription ‘Tavella’ and ‘Lire 3.’ (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on yellow-ochre prepared paper
14 x 19 in. (35.7 x 48.2 cm)

Provenance

Marcello Durazzo (1790-1848), Genoa (until 2004 on his mount).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, South Kensington, 10 December 2004, lot 336.
with Pandora Old Masters, New York (Recent Acquisitions, 2005, pp. 20-21).

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Lot Essay

This large composition is an autonomous study by Carlo Antonio Tavella. A prolific draftsman active in Genoa, Tavella was praised by his contemporaries mainly for his landscape compositions. The present sheet was once in the collection of the Genoese Marcello Durazzo and, until recently, it was mounted on one of Durazzo’s distinctive mounts. Another drawing, very similar in size, technique, and subject matter, also from Durazzo’s collection, is in Stuttgart (inv. III/ 1601; see C. Thiem, ‘Carlo Antonio Tavella. Un contributo per il disegnatore’, in Disegni Genovesi da Cinquecento al Settecento. Giornate di Studio 9-10 Maggio 1989, pp. 217-218, ill.).

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