Remigio Cantagallina (Borgo San Sepolcro 1582-1656 Florence)

An Alpine landscape with a farmhouse in a valley

Details

Remigio Cantagallina (Borgo San Sepolcro 1582-1656 Florence)
An Alpine landscape with a farmhouse in a valley
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark encircled device below a crown
7¼ x 11 in. (184 x 279 mm.)

Provenance

An unidentified collector's mark I.D.
Dr. Barry Delany (L. 350); Sotheby's, London, 5 June 1872, lot 67 (as Genoels).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 1983, lot 107.

Lot Essay

Of the same size and technique, and probably drawn during the same trip in the Alps, as a drawing of Val Urbano sold at Christie's, London, 11-3 December 1985, lot 311. Also comparable is a drawing of Impruneta in the Uffizi (C. Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner Des Frùhbarock, Munich, 1977, no. 121).
Dr. Roland de Lathuy has kindly confirmed the attribution to Cantagallina of the basis of a photograph.

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