Giovanni Battista dell' Era

Lot 89: GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELL'ERA

Name: GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELL'ERA
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 00897ccfa3

Est: $10,000 USD - $15,000 USD

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 25, 2012

Item Overview

Description

TREVIGLIO 1765-1798 FLORENCE
SOCRATES BEING SHOWN HIS CONDEMNATION
Pen and brown ink
277 by 394 mm; 10 7/8 by 15 1/2 in

Artist or Maker

Giovanni Battista dell' Era

Exhibited

Naples, Palazzo Reale, Goethe e i suoi interlocutori, 1983, p. 176, no. 126, reproduced p. 281, fig. 126 (as W. Tischbein);
Treviglio, Museo Civico Ernesto e Teresa Torre, Giovanni Battista Dell'Era (1765-1799), 2000, p. 120, no. 65, and under no. 64

Literature

E. Calbi and N. Frabbi, I disegni di Giovan Battista Dell'Era nel Museo Civico di Treviglio, Casalecchio sul Reno 1997, p. 68, under no. 204, reproduced p. 69;
Marie-Anne Dupuy, Dominique-Vivant Denon, exh. cat., Paris, Musèe du Louvre, 1999-2000, p. 512 (Dell'Era, Socrate prenant connoissance de l'arrêt qui le condanne?)

Provenance

Baron D. Vivant Denon (L.779), his sale 15th May 1826, lot 209;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1971, lot 215 (as Roman School, circa 1800);
Louis-Antoine Prat (L.3618)

Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

Sotheby's

January 25, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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