Lot 114
  • 114

Pietro Testa

Estimate
4,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Pietro Testa
  • A study of a sculpted female nude, seen in profile, after the Antique
  • Pen and brown ink

Catalogue Note

The present sheet records the so-called "nymph", an antique sculpture documented in the Palazzo Viscardi, Rome, in the mid-19th century.1

1. C.-O.-F.-J.-B. Comte de Clarac, Musée de Sculpture antique et moderne, vol. IV, Paris 1850, cat. no. 1425d, reproduced pl. 606b