A river landscape with a town beyond (recto); A mountainous landscape with travellers (verso)

Details

Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)
A river landscape with a town beyond (recto); A mountainous landscape with travellers (verso)
with inscription ‘paysage’ (verso)
traces of red chalk (recto), pen and brown ink (recto and verso), brown wash (recto), watermark double encircled emblem (cf. Heawood 1636)
7 ¾ x 10 ¾ in. (19.8 x 27.5 cm)

Provenance

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville (1680-1765) (L. 2951, his inscription and number ‘3629’).
with Hans Calmann, London, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Literature

J. Labbé, L. Bicart-Sée, La Collection de dessins d’Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d’Argenville, Paris, 1996, p. 340, no. 3629.

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Lot Essay

Imaginary landscapes such as the two on the present sheet were produced in great numbers by the Carracci studio and their followers, many of which sheets are preserved in the Musée du Louvre (see C. Loisel, Inventaire général des dessins italiens, VII, Ludovico, Agostino, Annibale Carracci, Paris, 2004, nos. 786-841, ill.).

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