Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Attributed to Giovanni Battista Ricci
Recto: A Funeral Procession Verso: Various studies for an Annunciation
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Attributed to Giovanni Battista Ricci
(Novara 1537 - 1627 Rome)
Recto: A Funeral Procession
Verso: Various studies for an Annunciation
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk (recto and verso);
numbered in pen and ink: 12 (recto), and in pencil: 131 (verso)
271 by 420 mm
Gustave Soulier (L.1215a, recto and verso)
Comparable in style with a drawing of The Vision of St Gregory, in the British Museum, which is a study for the fresco, attributed to Ricci by Baglione, in the Salviati Chapel in the Roman church of S.Gregorio al Celio, decorated in 1600.1
1.London, British Museum, inv. 1979,1006.87; J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Artists working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, London 1983, vol. I, cat. 246, vol. II, reproduced pl. 233
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