Lot 32: Isidoro Bianchi (1581-1662)

Job tormented by his wife black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on grey-blue paper, the margins extended, oval 91/4 x 75/8 in. (236 x 194 mm.) PROVENANCE Collection Pelletan. An 18th Century French collector with mount and inscriptions 'Francesco Brizio' and 'Ecole Lombarde Francesco Brizio tres rare job tourment‚ par Sa femme du cabinet pelletan francesco Brizio tres rare n 56'. M. de Bourguignon de Fabregoules. Charles-Joseph-Barth‚lemi Giraud. Fleury-H‚rard (L. 1015) with associated number '96'; Paris, 13-15 May 1861, lot 60 (3.25 FF). NOTES Comparable in handling and figure types to drawings by Bianchi reproduced in M. de Angelis, Isidoro Bianchi, Bergamo, 1993, nos. 1-4, figs. 168-174.