Paolo Girolamo Piola (1666-1724)

A flying Figure holding a Crown with two Putti and Juno on a Rainbow :Design for a Ceiling Compartment

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Paolo Girolamo Piola (1666-1724)
A flying Figure holding a Crown with two Putti and Juno on a Rainbow
:Design for a Ceiling Compartment
numbered '92' (recto) and '30' (verso) and inscribed 'dit Paolo Geramo Piola f.12./8bre 1875.' (verso)
black chalk, brush and brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized) on grey paper, in an inscribed shape
280 x 215 mm.

Provenance

J. Scholz (L.2933b).

Lot Essay

Drawings by Paolo Girolamo Piola of the same technique are in Darmstadt (U. Knapp in Genueser Zeichnungen des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts im Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 1990, nos. W21-2) in Stuttgart (M. Newcome, Genoese Baroque Drawings, exhib. cat., Binghampton, University Art Gallery and elsewhere, 1972, no. 125) and another, also for a ceiling compartment was sold at Christie's, 11-13 December 1985, lot 263.

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