- 102
Giacomo Quarenghi
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- Giacomo Quarenghi
- landscape with buildings and figures near a bridge
- Pen and black ink with gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk;
bears old attribution: Quarenghi dessin Original par Quarenghi y 803f36 / no.
Catalogue Note
Giacomo Quarenghi was born near Bergamo, where now circa six hundred of his drawings are preserved in the Biblioteca Civica. He became the favorite architect of Empress Catherine II, and was responsible for a large number of projects for public and private buildings in Russia (see lot 102) Quarenghi was a prolific draftsman, recording real views such as the ones of Bergamo or Rome, as well as making fanciful capricci like this example which includes a Roman tomb resembling that of Cecilia Metella on the via Appia. It can be stylistically compared to a number of the sheets now in Bergamo.1
1. See, for example, S. Angelini, I Cinque Album di Giacomo Quarenghi, Bergamo 1967, plates 70-76