Description:

numbered, upper left: N 1979 [L.2987]; inscribed, lower right: A. Pozzo
pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk squared
411 x 268 mm

Provenance:

Johann Goll van Franckenstein (1722–1785), Amsterdam [L. 2987]
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome?
Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston, c. 1904 [L. 1860c]
with Seiferheld and Co., New York
Janos Scholz, New York, 1963
Private Collection, England

Literature

Fernanda De’Maffei, “Un disegno di Giuseppe Rolli per il soffitto della Chiesa di S. Paolo a Bologna”, Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Mario Salmi, Rome, 1963, Vol. III, pp. 325 - 29, fig. 1
Ebria Feinblatt, “Notes on some Bolognese Drawings”, Master Drawings, Vol. XIV/Number 3, Autumn 1976, pp. 270–277, fig. 5
Ebria Feinblatt, “Some Drawings by Giuseppe Rolli Identified”, Master Drawings, Volume XX/Number 1, Spring 1982, pp. 25 –28

Note:

A recently rediscovered preparatory study for the nave ceiling fresco of San Paolo Maggiore (also known as San Paolo Decollato) in Bologna, executed around 1695.

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