From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

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Giovanni Domenico Ferretti

An Allegory of Abundance

Auction Closed

January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti

Florence 1692 - 1768

An Allegory of Abundance


Black chalk with gray wash;

bears old attribution, verso: Gio. Battista Ferretti and bears later inscription, probably that of Charles Gasc (see L.42): Lemoine (Francois) nee a Paris en 1688, mort en 1737, eleve de L Galloche / Dessin achete a Paris le 6 Fevrier en 1860 / h=om 318 L=om, 475

287 by 410 mm; 11 1/14 by 16 1/8 in

Probably Charles Gasc (c.1822-after 1869), Paris (L.1068);
Amédée-Paul-Emile Gasc (1817-1866), Paris (L.1131);
with Galerie de Bayser, Paris;
Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston,
his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2008, lot 76
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