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Lot 65
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Ippolito Andreasi, called il Andreasino

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Ippolito Andreasi, called il Andreasino
  • studies for two lunettes with central female allegorical figures, one with a mandolin player, the other with a violin player surrounded by other female musicians

  • Each pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk, with touches of oxidised white heightening, one squared for transfer in black chalk

Condition

Sheet with violin player has slight loss to the lower right corner. Also a small damage to the upper left corner, reinforced on the verso. There is some surface dirt, and the white heightening has oxidised but otherwise the condition is absolutely fine. The other drawing is a little yellowed, with some small isolated fox marks. There is a small patch of thinning at the upper left corner, where the paper was previously attached to a backing sheet. The white heightening has oxidised (seen in illustration). Overall, however, the condition is good.
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Catalogue Note

These previously unknown drawings were formerly associated with Primaticcio, but they are clear examples of the graphic style of Ippolito Andreasi, a Mantuan artist of the second half of the16th century.  His graphic oeuvre was first studied by Richard Harprath in an article in Master Drawings in 1984.1 The artist, who seems to have been born in 1548 and died in 1608, was most probably a pupil of one of Giulio's followers such as Rinaldo Mantovano, Fermo Ghisoni or Lorenzo Costa the Younger.  These two lunettes with their musical subjects must relate to Andreasi's work in the Castle of Goito, where between 1586-7 he painted a Trionfo della Musica in the Camera della Musica of the Ducal apartments.  It appears that no other studies with a similar subject have survived and unfortunately the castle of Goito and its decoration have been destroyed. 

1. See 'Ippolito Andreasi as a draughtsman' in Master Drawings, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 3 -28, pls. 1-26