Gaspare Diziani

Lapauze collection, Paris.

A. P. Zugni-Tauro, Gaspare Diziani, Venice, 1971, p. 82. Illustrated plates 97 and 98.

Both canvases have been relined. The paintings have been cleaned and restored relatively recently and can be hung as they are. The paint surfaces are generally well preserved and retain the freshness of their original sketchy brushwork. Inspection under UV light reveals some inpainting of the craquelure pattern in the sky of 'Hagar and the Angel' and some very minor retouchings in the sky and at the extreme edges of both canvases.
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Datable to 1740-47 according to Zugni-Tauro (see Literature), these charming works were undoubtedly conceived as bozzetti for as-yet unidentified easel paintings or altarpieces.

We are grateful to Lino Moretti for supporting the attribution to Diziani on the basis of images.