Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686-1775)

The marriage of Hebe and Hercules: design for a ceiling

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Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686-1775)
The marriage of Hebe and Hercules: design for a ceiling
inscribed 'Il Dissegno rapresenta lo sposalizio di Ercole con Hebe in Cielo fingendosi che il Dio Imeneo conduca Hebe ad Ercole, ed esso la prenda per moglia, piu in alto in disparte si vede La Dea Venere con le Tre Grazie con diversi Amorini con face acere é fioriche .... da baso vicino ed Ercole due Amorini, uno can Bacile l'altro che presenta a la sposa diverse colane et altre Gioie' and with inscription 'C Carlone 6'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, in an inscribed quadrifoil, watermark Strasburg lily with WR
13 x 9½ in. (330 x 242 mm.)

Lot Essay

Another version of this drawing, without the wash, is in a private collection, Munich (B. Langer, Carlo Carlone, Landschut, 1990, no. 26). The drawings are possibly related to ceilings Carlone painted in 1726 in the Palazzo Gallio in Como, or four years later in Heimsheim for Wilhelm von Grävenitz.

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