Lot 94: - Attributed to Giovanni Battista Franchini, called Giovanni Battista Zelotti , Verona circa 1526 - 1578 Mantua allegorical figures of time, peace and fame Oil on paper washed brown, with pen and brown ink

Name: - Attributed to Giovanni Battista Franchini, called Giovanni Battista Zelotti , Verona circa 1526 - 1578 Mantua allegorical figures of time, peace and fame Oil on paper washed brown, with pen and brown ink
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: lkmt3evmea

Est: £1,526 GBP - £1,578 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 09, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Oil on paper washed brown, with pen and brown ink

Dimensions

measurements note 237 by 194 mm

Artist or Maker

Giovanni Battista Zelotti

Exhibited

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni veronesi del cinquecento, 1971, cat. no. 60, reproduced (catalogue by Terence Mullaly)

Literature

A. Ballarin, 'Considerazioni su una mostra di disegni veronesi del cinquecento,' in Arte Veneta, vol. XXV, 1971, p. 118, in note 39 (attribution to Zelotti rejected);
K. Brugnolo Meloncelli, Battista Zelotti, Milan 1992, p. 146, cat. no. D.A.21 (as Attributed to Zelotti)

Provenance

With Hans Calmann

Notes

The attribution to Zelotti was made by Terence Mullaly in his catalogue of the Cini exhibition (see Exhibited). Although the figures cannot be connected with a surviving work, the stylistic similarities are strong. There is an old attribution on the mount: Originale di Pυo Tibaldi.

Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

Sotheby's

July 09, 2008, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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