Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Il Baciccio

Sold in attactive carved and gilded frame. The drawing is hinged at the edges. The sheet appears to have been cut slightly at the upper edge. It has some very tiny, light fox marks near the lower left corner, and two very light brown stains in the upper corners. The ink is silghtly sunk in parts. Otherwise in very good condition- the paper clear and fresh.
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Considering how many drawings by Gaulli survive, there are relatively few compositional drawings by the artist. The present sheet does not relate to any known painting, but is similar in approach to a compositional study by Gaulli in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, depicting Lot and his Daughters.¹

1. See D. Graf, Die Handzeichnungen von Guglielmo Cortese und Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Düsseldorf 1976, vol. I, p. 141, cat. no. 437, vol. II, p. 266, fig. 564