LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk
Size Notes:
260 by 191 mm; 10 1/4 by 7 1/2 in
Edition:
Around 180 of these studies are known, in public and private collections, many of which, unlike the present example, bear numbers in brown or gray ink. George Knox dates them late in Giambattista's career, circa 1758. They seem to have been done for their own sake, although of course they are a logical outcome of his extensive work as a painter of ceiling frescoes.
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