ITALIAN NEAPOLITAN SCH. 18thC - RELIGIOUS FIGURE BY CORRADO GIAQUINTO - CHARCOAL
Item History & Price
For sale is this large size and quite impressive 18th century Italian master drawing.
The drawing, executed in charcoal and white chalk on laid paper, shows a study of a religious figure, depicting a kneeling Saint Dominic.This drawing, without any doubt, was a preparatory study for a larger scale project.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Italian-Neapolitan School, signed below "Corrado". This is the signature of Corrado Giaquinto.
CORRADO GIAQUINTO (Molfetta 1703 - ...Naples 1765) : Italian painter, draughtsman of the Rococo period.
As a boy, Giaquinto apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, escaping the religious career his parents had intended for him. By October 1724, he left Molfetta, and along with contemporary Francesco de Mura and Giuseppe Bonito, he trained from 1719 till 1723 in the prolific Neapolitan studio of Francesco Solimena, either with Solimena or his pupil, Nicola Maria Rossi. Throughout his life, Giaquinto was a painter who worked for longer periods in Naples, Rome, Turin, and Madrid, where he was active as a fresco painter. His work shows mainly religious subjects.
Period : ca. 1730-1740.
Size : 41, 5x27cm !!
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Top zone horizontal : traces of folding (only visible under a certain angle). Left and right side slightly damaged. Bottom corner right : traces of folding. Laid down on a paper support. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 18$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The drawing, executed in charcoal and white chalk on laid paper, shows a study of a religious figure, depicting a kneeling Saint Dominic.This drawing, without any doubt, was a preparatory study for a larger scale project.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Italian-Neapolitan School, signed below "Corrado". This is the signature of Corrado Giaquinto.
CORRADO GIAQUINTO (Molfetta 1703 - ...Naples 1765) : Italian painter, draughtsman of the Rococo period.
As a boy, Giaquinto apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, escaping the religious career his parents had intended for him. By October 1724, he left Molfetta, and along with contemporary Francesco de Mura and Giuseppe Bonito, he trained from 1719 till 1723 in the prolific Neapolitan studio of Francesco Solimena, either with Solimena or his pupil, Nicola Maria Rossi. Throughout his life, Giaquinto was a painter who worked for longer periods in Naples, Rome, Turin, and Madrid, where he was active as a fresco painter. His work shows mainly religious subjects.
Period : ca. 1730-1740.
Size : 41, 5x27cm !!
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Top zone horizontal : traces of folding (only visible under a certain angle). Left and right side slightly damaged. Bottom corner right : traces of folding. Laid down on a paper support. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 18$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
