Giuseppe Valeriani (Rome 1708-1762 Saint Petersburg)

A design for a wall decoration with two alternatives

Details

Giuseppe Valeriani (Rome 1708-1762 Saint Petersburg)
A design for a wall decoration with two alternatives
inscribed 'camino'
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash
9 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (24.5 x 29.1 cm.)

Provenance

The Duke of Leuchtenberg.
E. Fatio (L. 3472); Nicolas Rauch S.A., Geneva, 3-4 June 1959, part of lot 241 (an album of 143 drawings of various sizes by Valeriani and his studio).

Literature

A. Benois, 'Review of St. Petersburg exhibition', Starye gody, May 1912, pp. 3-28 (article on the whole album).

Exhibited

Saint Petersburg, Russian Academy of Science, Lomonosoff et l'époque d'Elisabeth, 1912 (the whole album of which this drawing was part).

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Lot Essay

Tamara Fomicieva, when keeper of the Italian art at The Hermitage, suggested that this is a study by Giuseppe Valeriani for a decoration of a room in the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, destroyed by a fire in 1837.

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