Lot 40: An allegorical scene with Fame, Truth and a poet (recto); A female portrait (verso)

Giovanni Battista Canal (Venice 1745-1825) An allegorical scene with Fame, Truth and a poet (recto); A female portrait (verso) with inscription 'Fama e Valore. / G. B. Canal.' (verso) black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour (recto); black chalk (verso), oval 7 7/8 x 13 in. (20 x 32.8 cm.); and A bearded man and sketches of heads, attributed to Luigi Sabatelli; and Portrait of a man, possibly Gian Paolo Sormani, Italian School, circa 1740 (3)3

20 x 32.8 cm.

circa 1740