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Lot 48: PASQUALE CATI

Est: $2,000 USD - $3,000 USD
Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USJanuary 23, 2003

Item Overview

Description

(Jesi 1550-1620 Rome) The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. Pen and brown ink and wash and gray wash heightened with white on cream laid paper. 345x300 mm; 13x11 inches. Stylized dragon watermark. The current work is likely a preliminary study for the altarpiece in the Capello di Sacramento, Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome (see Mostra Palazzo Spinola, Genoa, 1985-86, catalogue number 58). The humanist Cardinal Marcus Sitticus Altemps commissioned Cati to paint th chapel around 1588.

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Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

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Swann Auction Galleries
January 23, 2003, 12:00 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US