Lot 83: * BENEDETTO GENNARI CENTO 1633 - 1715 BOLOGNA

ANDROMEDA AND THE DRAGON

ANDROMEDA AND THE DRAGON

measurements note
213 by 154mm; 8 3/8 by 6 1/16 in

bears two attributions in pencil, one on the backing of the drawing, the other on the old mount: Albano and F Albani, and on the backing board in pen and ink

red chalk with touches of white chalk

PROVENANCE

A.O. Meyer (L.1994)

NOTE

The attribution was proposed by Nicholas Turner, who pointed out the compositional links with a painting of the same subject now in a private collection in Bologna (see Prisco Bagni, Benedetto Gennari, Padua 1986, no. 32, reproduced). The painting is dated to 1674-75, the period in which Gennari left Paris for England. Bagni writes of the painting: 'Il dipinto pur essendo di chiara impronta guercinesca, risente di una certa raffinatezza probabilmente derivata dalle sue esperienze in Francia'. Stylistically, the present work fits well with Gennari's known drawings.