The Finding of Moses

Details

Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (Bologna 1581-1641 Naples)
The Finding of Moses
with inscription ‘Dominichino’ (recto) and ‘di Castiglione [crossed out]/ [illegible inscription, crossed out] [...] del Dominichino’ (verso, visible through the mount)
pen and brown ink
5 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (12.9 x 18.7 cm)

Provenance

Cavaliere Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676- 1742), Florence (L. 2992b, with associated inscription ‘di Castiglione [crossed out]/ [illegible inscription, crossed out] Orig.e del Dominichino’ (verso, visible through the mount).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L. 2364, possibly with associated number in red chalk ‘87’).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 22 June 1959, lot 449, where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Exhibited

Zurich, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zwiegespräch mit Zeichnungen. Werke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Robert Landolt, 2013-2014, no. 21, ill. (catalogue entry by M. Matile).

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Lot Essay

In subject and style this drawing is close to an upright Finding of Moses at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (K. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Italian Schools, II, Oxford, 1956, no. 839, pl. CLXXXI). The lively manner of the figures and the landscape style can also be compared to such pen sketches at Windsor Castle as the Last Communion of Saint Jerome and others in the Royal Collection (inv. RCIN 900594; see J. Pope-Hennessy, The Drawings of Domenichino in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1948, nos. 1065, 1688, 1689, pl. 20).

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