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
Giovanni Battista Busiri
Recto: Landscape with figures at the Tomb of Cecilia Metella Verso: Study of Corinthian Columns
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Giovanni Battista Busiri
Rome 1698 - 1757
Recto: Landscape with figures at the Tomb of Cecilia Metella
Verso: Study of Corinthian Columns
Gouache, within a black ink framing line and border (recto); pen and black ink over black chalk (verso);
bears numbering in brown ink, verso: 3 1/2 Louis and 81(?)
280 by 382 mm; 11 by 15 in
thence by descent to Julia Poli Sheahan, New Haven;
Estate sale, New Haven, 1977
The Roman artist Giovanni Battista Busiri focused, primarily, on landscapes and vedute, with the present work, depicting the ruins of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, a particularly accomplished example in gouache.
The Tomb of Cecilia Metella is located in the outskirts of Rome, at the three mile marker on the Via Appia, and was a location that Busiri incorporated into his painted and drawn work with some frequency.1
1. See sale, London, Christie's, 7 December 1993, part of lot 40