(1578 – Florence – 1650) Head of a Young Girl Black and red chalk 222 x 185 mm Inscribed in pencil in the lower right corner : Rosselli Inscribed in ink on the back of the drawing Matteo Rosselli can be considered as one of the first florentine painters who took part to the baroque movement.…
(Around 1603 – 1664) Two terms Black chalk and white chalk 425 x 278 mm c. 1657 Possibly a première pensée for the decoration of Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil, Paris. Little is known about Corneille the Elder’s early career before he entered the studio of Simon Vouet, with whom he became a close collaborator. Initially influenced by the…
Michel Dorigny (1617 Saint-Quentin- Paris 1665) Study for a satyr Black chalk heightened with white Born in 1617 in Saint-Quentin, Michel Dorigny entered an apprenticeship with Georges Lallemant in 1630, before becoming a student of Simon Vouet and principal engraver of his work. He was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in…
Studies for a portrait of a lady Black chalk heightened with white 245 x 387 mm Circa 1700 BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dominique Brême, François de Troy (1645-1730) Paris-Toulouse, 1997, ill. p.99. François de Troy was taught by his father Jean, then by Nicolas Loire, and Claude Lefebvre. He moved to Paris after 1662 and was received…
(1530 Milan 1592) Virgin to the child Pen, brown ink and heigthened gouache 125 x 95 mm Around 1570 Provenance : private collection, France, since 1960’s Aurelio Luini belonged to a dynasty of Milanese painters founded by his father. Even though his father died when Luini was an infant, the son remained within his father’s tradition…
(1661 Milan 1715) Man seen da sotto Sanguine 220 x 160 mm Carlo Donelli is known as ‘Il Vimercati’, after the Lombard town of Vimercate from which his family is thought to have originated. A pupil of Ercole Procaccini the Younger (1596-1676), he gained a considerable reputation as a painter in Milan. He was a…
(Pistoia 1623 – 1703 Roma) The continence of Scipio Black chalk, pen and ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper 365 x 225 mm Annotated : Pietro da Cortona In 1647, Baldi left Pistoia for the Roman workshop of Pietro da Cortona, and was, with Ciro Ferri, one of the most promising…
