Live veiling - Lot 615
[Italian school]
Minerva and Demeter.
Ca.1550-1700
€ 150 / 250
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Beschrijving lot
Drawing, black chalk, 33 x 36,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (laid down on cardb. mount, brown toned paper, some sm. tears at lower right edge, slightly affecting the image, some repaired tears at lower middle, at Demeter's dress, foxing).
Under passe-partout and with hand-drawn brown frame.
Large design with two Ancient goddesses, probably Minerva and Demeter, seated in a niche. Perhaps a drawing in preparation for or after a larger fresco or ceiling painting in the manner of Annibale Carracci.
Prov. The Earl of Dalhousie (stamp, Lugt 717a).