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
Agostino Tassi
A Shipwreck with Figures
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Agostino Tassi
Perugia circa 1578 - 1644 Rome
A Shipwreck with Figures
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk
184 by 276 mm; 7 1/4 by 10 7/8 in
This rapid and expressive study of a shipwreck may relate to Tassi's coastal scenes, executed for the Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj in Rome under the supervision of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, later Pope Innocent X.1 Another version of this composition, in a vertical format and with less extravagant use of wash, is in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna.2Though neither of the aforementioned drawings appear to directly correspond to a surviving painting there are, within Tassi's œuvre, numerous canvases that depict marine scenes, the majority of which date to late in the artist's career, circa 1635-40.
1. Agostino Tassi, exhib.cat., Rome, Palazzo di Venezia, 2008, pp. 78-79
2. V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Generalverzeichnis, vol. 1, Vienna 1992, p. 522, inv. no. 1017