Lot 73: GIACINTO DIANO

GIACINTO DIANO POZZUOLI 1731 - 1804 NAPLES VENUS STEALING CUPID'S BOW oil on canvas, a bozzetto 47.5 by 53 cm.; 18 3/4 by 20 7/8 in.

Dr. H.C. Heinrich Scheufelen (1866-1948);
Dr. Ing. E.H. Scheufelen, Oberlenningen.

This is Diano's preparatory sketch for his finished painting that was sold London, Sotheby's Olympia, 1 November 2005, lot 140, for £38,000 (and reproduced there on the front cover). The work enjoys a distinguished provenance having been part of the German industrialist Heinrich Scheufelen's collection, many of whose Italian baroque paintings are now housed in the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.