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The Property of the Trustees of the Knole Second Trust Fund (lots 12, 109-114, 123, 131, 159-161 and 198-200)

Giuseppe Cades (Rome 1750-1799)

Minerva directing the construction of Athens; and The Contest of Minerva and Arachne

Details

Giuseppe Cades (Rome 1750-1799)
Minerva directing the construction of Athens; and The Contest of Minerva and Arachne
signed 'Cades' and inscribed 'Minerva Che edificà Atene' (1) and 'Minerva che converte larle [crossed out] in Ragniò Aragnie che pretendeva di Ricamare meglio di Minerva'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, watercolour, watermarks Pro Patria (1) and J Honig & Zoonen (2)
8 x 12 5/8 in. (201 x 320 mm.)(a pair) (2)

Provenance

By descent in the Sackville family, and subsequently the Sackville-West family, at Knole Park, Kent. See the provenance to lot 131.

Literature

A. Gonzales-Palacios, 'La Grammatica neo-classica', Antichità Viva, XII (1973), p. 50, fig. 65.M.T. Caracciolo, Giuseppe Cades, Paris, 1992, no. 49a. (both drawings).

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Lot Essay

A drawing in pen and brown ink and brown wash made in preparation for the second drawing in this pair was formerly with Galerie Martin Moeller, Hamburg (M.T. Caracciolo, op. cit., no. 49b). Maria Teresa Caracciolo dates the group to the 1780s, and suggests that a drawing of similar format and technique showing Athena inspiring a warrior to valour (sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 20-21 February 1988, lot 317) may be connected to the same unidentified project, perhaps for a frieze (M.T. Caracciolo, op. cit., p. 243).

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