Lot 212: Attributed to Vincenzo Dandini (Florence 1609-1675)

Attributed to Vincenzo Dandini (Florence 1609-1675)
Copies after reliefs on the Arch of Constantine: Departure for the Hunt (1), and Sacrifice to Diana (2)
each signed with initials 'v.D.v.'
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark encircled anchor (1)
7 7/8 x 10¾ in. (200 x 273 mm.) (2)

Binghamton, University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, and elsewhere, Drawings from the Held Collection, 1970, no. 118 (as by Vincenzo Dandini).
Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and elsewhere, Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, 1979, no. 17 (as Anonymous, 17th Century).

C. Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarock, Munich, 1977, p. 395.

The traditional attribution to Dandini derives from the similar way in which he often signed his drawings with his initials, and the many drawings he made after the antique in Rome.