From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
Felice Giani
A Sacrificial Procession
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Felice Giani
San Sebastiano Curone 1758 - 1823 Rome
A Sacrificial Procession
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray washes;
signed in brown ink, lower centre: F. Giani fecit
203 by 280 mm; 8 by 11 in
Private Collection, UK;
with Spencer Samuels, New York,
where acquired, 1991
This signed and finely preserved sheet by the Italian Neoclassicist, Felice Giani, can be closely compared on both stylistic and compositional grounds with a similarly sized drawing that appeared on the London art market in 2011.1 Though that drawing is extremely discolored, due in part to a varnish that has been applied to the verso, it does bear an intriguing inscription to the lower right corner - Processione del tempio della Pace - alluding to a possible decorative scheme, to which the O'Brien drawing can also be associated.
1. Sale, London, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 13 April 2011, lot 260