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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection

Donato Creti

A nymph sleeping under a tree

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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection


Donato Creti

(Cremona 1671 - 1749 Bologna)

A nymph sleeping under a tree


Pen and brown ink;

bears modern attribution on the backing: Gaetano Gandolfi and Carracci

358 by 236 mm

Peter Kröker, Essen;

Roberto Franchi, Bologna

 

R. Roli, Donato Creti. 46 disegni inediti, Bologna 1973, no. 20, reproduced;

G. Perini, ‘Donato Creti inconsueto’, Arte a Bologna. Bollettino dei musei civici d’arte antica’, I, 1990, p. 71, note 38;

C. Bernardini, in C. Bernardini and E. Riccomini, Donato Creti. Melanconia e perfezione. Le storie di Achille, le Virtù e i chiaroscuri della donazione Collina Sbaraglia al Senato di Bologna, exhib. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1998-99, p. 58;

P. Giannattasio, in M. Faietti and A. Zacchi, Figure e Disegni dal Cinquecento all’Ottocento nella Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, exhib. cat., Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, 1998, p. 270;

A. Mazza, in S. Béguin and F. Piccinini, Artisti, eruditi storiografi: la memoria di Nicolò, in Nicolò dell’Abate. Storie Dipinte Nella Pittura del Cinquecento tra Modena e Fontainebleau, exhib. cat., Modena, Foro Boario, 2005, pp. 389-390, under no. 172, reproduced;

M. Riccomini, Donato Creti, Le opere su carta. Catalogo ragionato, Turin 2012, p. 30, no. 14.2, reproduced fig. 14.2

Elegantly drawn and meticulously finished, this is one of a group of sheets depicting figures in landscapes, which are characteristic of Creti's pen style (see also lot 143).  Although they can occasionally be related to paintings, most seem to have been executed as independent works of art. 


Marco Riccomini observes similarities with other sheets including a sketch in the Morgan Library showing a Satyr Sneaking Up on a Sleeping Nymph, and another of the same subject with onlookers in an elaborate landscape, in a private collection, in Bologna.1 These drawings are datable in the second decade of the eighteenth century.2


1.Respectively, Riccomini, op. cit., cat. 11.6, and Roli, op. cit., cat. 19

2.R. Roli, Donato Creti, Milan 1967, p. 87