From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

Pietro Giacomo Palmieri

A landscape with herdsman

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

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3,000 - 4,000 USD

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Pietro Giacomo Palmieri

Bologna 1737 - 1804 Turin

A landscape with herdsman

Pen and dark brown ink, within black chalk framing lines;

signed and dated in brown ink, lower centre: P. Palmerius Invenit, et Fecit 1774

243 by 360 mm; 9 1/2 by 14 1/8 in

With H. Swetzoff, Boston;
Esther and Malcolm Bick, Longmeadow, MA;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 16 January 1986, lot 81

F.W. Robinson and J.T. Paoletti (eds.) Italian Drawings. Selections from the Collection of Esther S. and Malcolm W. Bick, Hanover, NH, 1971, cat. no. 45

Palmieri was born in Bologna, where he studied with Ercole Graziani. After living in Paris for eight years, from 1771-79, during which time the present work was executed, he moved to Turin, where he worked for the Savoy court as an advisor for the Royal collection of prints and drawings.

A highly comparable sheet, drawn in pen and brown ink and similarly signed - Palmerius - depicting a Fortified Bridge against Distant Mountains is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.¹

1. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, inv. no. 1985.7.4