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

Giuseppe Passeri

An Abbot Saint, possibly St. Anthony of Egypt, surrounded by peasants, discovering a spring

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

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Giuseppe Passeri

Rome 1654 - 1714

An Abbot Saint, possibly St. Anthony of Egypt, surrounded by peasants, discovering a spring

Pen and brown ink and gray wash and red chalk and wash, heightened with white;

circular;

bears old attribution in brown ink, lower centre: Gioseffo Passari

Diameter: 260 mm; 10 1/4 in

With H. Shickman Gallery, New York, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, October 1965, no. 23;
sale, New York, Christie's, 11 January 1994, lot 222

Executed in Passeri's favored and highly distinctive combination of media, in which energetic red chalk underdrawing is coupled with brown ink and wash, followed by the liberal application of luminous white heightening, the present sheet is a quintessential example of the artist's graphic style.

Comparable sheets can be found in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna,¹ as well as the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, where the vast majority of the artist's surviving drawn oeuvre is housed.

1. V. Birke & J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Generalverzeichnis, vol. I (Inv. 1-1200), Vienna 1994, pp. 574-580