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FRENCH SCHOOL (?), 19TH CENTURY
An imaginary ruin with figures and a cart pulled by oxen
pen and black ink, watercolor, watermark ‘VANDERLEY’
15æ x 11æ in. (40.4 x 29.6 cm)
$3,000-4,000

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PIETRO FANCELLI (BOLOGNA 1764-1850)
Saint John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness
black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash, watermark with letter
‘H’
19Ω x 11æ in. (48.5 x 29.7 cm)
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE:
Société historique et littéraire polonaise, Paris; Christie’s, London, 4 July 1972,
no. 29.
with Seiferheld & Co., New York.
Private collection, New York.
Frederick J. Cummings (1933-1990), New York.
with Mark Brady & Co., New York (Old Master Drawings, 1990, no. 30, ill.).
The drawing is a study for the altarpiece Fancelli painted for the high altar
of the Parish Church of the village of Minerbio, near Bologna. Dedicated to
Saint John the Baptist, the original 14th Century building was rebuilt in 1732.
Another sheet related to the same painting, with Saint John the Baptist
preaching, was on the market in 1993 (Christie’s, London, 6 July 1993, lot
231).
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