Lot 335: GIUSEPPE BAZZANI

MANTUA 1690 - 1769 ST. PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS Point of the brush and brown wash, over red chalk 247 by 420 mm

Newcastle, 1974, no. 103, reproduced pl. XXVII (as Attributed to Giuseppe Bazzani); London, 1975, no. 68 (as Attributed to Giuseppe Bazzani); Newcastle, 1982, no. 83, reproduced pl. X B (as Attributed to Giuseppe Bazzani)

F. Caroli, Giuseppe Bazzani, Milan 1988, p. 213, no. 332, reproduced

Bears indistinct collector's mark in a printed oval, twice, recto; sale, London, Christie's, 25 March 1969, lot 39 (as Giovanni Battista Marcola), purchased by Ralph Holland

In his exhibition catalogue notes, Ralph Holland stressed the similarities with a drawing in Budapest which bears an autograph inscription: Giuseppe Bazzani il 10 di agosto 1759.1 Flavio Caroli independently suggested the same connection. 1. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, inv. no. 57. 22K; F. Caroli, op. cit., no. 270, reproduced