Lot 16
16
BOLOGNESE SCHOOL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
BOLOGNESE SCHOOL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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BOLOGNESE SCHOOL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene

Details
BOLOGNESE SCHOOL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene
with inscription ‘dal 7’ (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, squared for transfer in black chalk, watermark anchor and letters ‘GR’
7 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (18.5 x 25 cm)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 39 (as Bolognese School, 17th Century).

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Lot Essay

A drawing with the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian apparently by the same hand and of the same format as the present one was on the market in 1972 (Sotheby’s, London, 23 March 1972, lot 125) with an attribution to Corrado Giaquinto. Yet the style of the composition is reminiscent of the graphic production of artists active in Emilia in the 18th Century such as the Bolognese Vittorio Maria Bigari - see, for example, Bigari’s Banquet for the prodigal son in Madrid (inv. F.D. 165; C. Casali Predelli, Vittorio Maria Bigari. Affreschi, dipinti, disegni, Bologna, 1991, no. 56, ill.).

We are grateful to Marco Riccomini for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.

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