Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Augustine of Hippo: a bozzetto

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Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (Scaria 1686-1775 Como)
Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Augustine of Hippo: a bozzetto
oil on canvas
13¾ x 13¼ in. (35 x 33.3 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Hans Gronau, London.

Literature

O. Benesch, 'Carlone's frescoes of the Evangelists and the Fathers of the Church in the Chapel of the Electors at Breslau', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXXI, 1947, pp. 42-5, fig. 3.
A. Barigozzi Brini and K. Garas, Carlo Innocenzo Carlone, Milan, 1967, pp. 124 and 132.
Klara Garas und Wilfried Hansmann, eds., Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686-1775): Ölskizzen, Salzburg, 1986, under no. 5.

Exhibited

Vienna, Galerie St. Lucas, Italienische Barockmalerei, 1937, no. 15.

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Lot Essay

This bozetto and its pendant, depicting Saints Matthew and Gregory the Great (the latter bequeathed by Oswald Kutschera-Woborsky to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna in 1920), were painted in preparation for a decorative scheme of the Four Evangelists and Four Latin Fathers of the Church in Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's Chapel of the Electors in the Cathedral of Breslau, built in 1716, when Silesia was under Austrian rule. Otto Benesch was the first to recognise the connection between the bozzetti and the fresco decoration at Breslau, executed between 1721 and 1726. A wash drawing for the cupola decoration is in the British Museum.

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