Lot 75: * GIOCONDO ALBERTOLLI BEDANO 1742 - 1839 MILAN

AN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN WITH AN EAGLE AND A SNAKE WITHIN A CROWN OF LAUREL LEAVES

measurements note
288 by 376mm; 11 5/ 16 by 14 13/16 in

signed in pencil: Giocondo Albertolli

pen and gray ink and wash

NOTE

In this ornamental design, the eagle and the serpent represent an allegory of Good Government. It is related to plate XI in Albertolli's publication of 1796, Miscellanea per i gioveni studiosi di disegno, a manual which he prepared for the students of the Scuola di Ornato of Brera (see E. Colle, Giocondo Albertolli: I repertori d' ornato, Milan 2002, p. 39, no.35). In 1775 Albertolli, who came from a family of artist decorators, moved to Milan to became a professor of ornament and design at the Accademia of Brera.