ITALIAN - BOLOGNESE SCH. 17thC - RLEIGIOUS SCENE ATTR. FRANCESCHINI - INK DRAWING
Item History & Price
The previous month (April), I was contacted by a colegue-friend of Paris, mentioning a collection of Italian drawings from an old English collection were coming on the market through a Milanese dealer I know well. Finaly, I acquired this collection, showing a variety of Italian drawings, datable from the early 17th till the late 18th century. This fine collection will come on the market during the following weeks.An added page bares the inscription "Con ts Lindsay" (this re...fers to James Lindsay, the 24th Earl of Crawford. Further inscriptions reveal the early (English) provenance of the collection. Finaly, another inscription tells us that the collection was bought in Italy in the year 1825 (a copy of this page will be added on request).
The present drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash on rather thick laid paper, depicts a religious scene, showing the Holy Family, accompanied by an angel and putti, in a classical setting (a classical temple can be noticed left).
Authorship : the drawing is from the Italian-Bolognese School, showing the hand of a master artist. An attribution to Marcantonio Fraceschini is being suggested (the figures in our drawing are very simular to these in a Franceschini drawing "the ecstacy of San Filippo Neri" - Lyon, Museum of Decorative Arts).
MARCANTONIO FRANCESCHINI (Bologna 1648 - Boloogna 1729) : Italian painter, draughtsman. A pupil of Carlo Cignani, Marcantonio Franceschini spent much of the 1670’s working as Cignani’s chief assistant. By the end of the decade he had begin to establish himself as an independent artist, producing altarpieces for churches in Bologna and the surrounding area. In 1680 he received first major fresco commission, for a ceiling decoration of Fortuna and the Four Seasons in the Palazzo Ranuzzi in Bologna. The success of this led to many further fresco commissions. His work as a frescante culminated in the grandiose cycle of scenes from the history of the Republic of Genoa in the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, painted between 1702 and 1704 but destroyed by fire in 1777. He also produced a large number of altarpieces and smaller scale devotional and mythological works for illustrious patrons from Emilia and beyond.
Among Franceschini’s most significant patrons was Prince Johann Adam Andreas of Liechtenstein, for whom he worked for almost two decades, between 1691 and 1709, painting numerous canvases to decorate several rooms in the Liechtenstein Garden Place in Vienna. The artist also served as an agent for the Prince in the acquisition of paintings in Italy. A founder member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna in 1709, of which he later served a term as president, Franceschini was summoned to Rome in 1711 by Pope Clement XI to provide cartoons for the mosaic decoration of a chapel in St. Peter’s, for which he later earned a knighthood.
Period : ca. 1680-1690.
Size : 19, 2x13, 2cm.
Provenance :
Collection James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, who acquired the collection in Italy in 1825 ("bt. in Italy a. 1825").Collection Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford and 6th Earl of Balcarres (of Haig Hall - Wigan), by heritage.Private collection Milan (Italy).
Condition : Fairly good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Mid horizontal, mid vertical : traces of folding. Some light spots. Bazckside : traces of a paper support. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 16$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
2 / 2Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
The present drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash on rather thick laid paper, depicts a religious scene, showing the Holy Family, accompanied by an angel and putti, in a classical setting (a classical temple can be noticed left).
Authorship : the drawing is from the Italian-Bolognese School, showing the hand of a master artist. An attribution to Marcantonio Fraceschini is being suggested (the figures in our drawing are very simular to these in a Franceschini drawing "the ecstacy of San Filippo Neri" - Lyon, Museum of Decorative Arts).
MARCANTONIO FRANCESCHINI (Bologna 1648 - Boloogna 1729) : Italian painter, draughtsman. A pupil of Carlo Cignani, Marcantonio Franceschini spent much of the 1670’s working as Cignani’s chief assistant. By the end of the decade he had begin to establish himself as an independent artist, producing altarpieces for churches in Bologna and the surrounding area. In 1680 he received first major fresco commission, for a ceiling decoration of Fortuna and the Four Seasons in the Palazzo Ranuzzi in Bologna. The success of this led to many further fresco commissions. His work as a frescante culminated in the grandiose cycle of scenes from the history of the Republic of Genoa in the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, painted between 1702 and 1704 but destroyed by fire in 1777. He also produced a large number of altarpieces and smaller scale devotional and mythological works for illustrious patrons from Emilia and beyond.
Among Franceschini’s most significant patrons was Prince Johann Adam Andreas of Liechtenstein, for whom he worked for almost two decades, between 1691 and 1709, painting numerous canvases to decorate several rooms in the Liechtenstein Garden Place in Vienna. The artist also served as an agent for the Prince in the acquisition of paintings in Italy. A founder member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna in 1709, of which he later served a term as president, Franceschini was summoned to Rome in 1711 by Pope Clement XI to provide cartoons for the mosaic decoration of a chapel in St. Peter’s, for which he later earned a knighthood.
Period : ca. 1680-1690.
Size : 19, 2x13, 2cm.
Provenance :
Collection James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, who acquired the collection in Italy in 1825 ("bt. in Italy a. 1825").Collection Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford and 6th Earl of Balcarres (of Haig Hall - Wigan), by heritage.Private collection Milan (Italy).
Condition : Fairly good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Mid horizontal, mid vertical : traces of folding. Some light spots. Bazckside : traces of a paper support. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 16$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
2 / 2Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
