Lot 76: * GIUSEPPE PASSERI ROME 1654 - 1714

THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES (MARK 6:35-44)

measurements note
193 by 337mm; 7 9/16 by 13 1/4 in

inscribed in pen and brown ink: Li versi come dette da Sant'Marc' (?)

pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over red chalk

PROVENANCE

bears unidentified collector's mark (verso)

NOTE

Passeri seems to have planned at least three paintings of this subject. Two drawings in Düsseldorf relate to one, another in Dayton to a second (see D. Graf, Master Drawings by Giuseppe Passeri in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1995, cat. nos. 477-9 and fig. 261). This sketch is for a third painting, which was presumably intended for a space above a door or altar. There is no record of such a commission but the style of the drawing, according to Dieter Graf, would suggest a date of circa 1690.