Lot 429
  • 429

Agostino Masucci

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Agostino Masucci
  • Studies for the Prophets Daniel and Baruch (?)
  • Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk within partial grey ink framing lines;
    inscribed in pen and brown ink upper right: Leoni Li Segna La Sega / della Visione, and bears numbering/collector's number, lower right: m 138, also bears old attribution in black chalk, lower centre: Trevisani

Provenance

William F. Webb and his daughter, Lady Cheamside,
by descent to Richard Gatty, Pepper Arden, Northallerton, Yorkshire,
his sale and others, London, Sotheby's, 18 March 1959, part of lot 51 (as Francesco Trevisani), purchased by Ralph Holland

Exhibited

Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr Richard Gatty, May-June 1954, no. 67a (as F. Trevisani);
Newcastle, 1960, no. 35 (as Francesco Trevisani);
Newcastle, 1964, no. 67;
Newcastle, 1974, no. 104

Catalogue Note

The present sheet contains studies for the oval paintings of Prophets, located in the cove of the ceiling of the Sala dei Panini in the Casino, in the Garden of the Quirinal Palace, Rome. See also lot 316.