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
Carlo Alberto Baratta
Recto: The Death of Hector Verso: Two Battling Figures with Shields and Swords
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carlo Alberto Baratta
Genoa 1754 - 1815
Recto: The Death of Hector
Verso: Two Battling Figures with Shields and Swords
Point of the brush and black wash heightened with white on dark blue-green paper (recto); black chalk (verso)
231 by 298 mm; 9 1/8 by 11 3/4 in
With Colnaghi, New York and London, An Exhibition of Master Drawings, June-July 2000, cat. no. 32
M. Newcome Schleier & G. Grasso, Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo, Turin 2003, p. 11, reproduced fig. S5 (as Carlo Alberto Baratta, The Death of Germanicus (?))
This dramatic baroque drawing, depicting the Death of Hector, is by the Genoese artist, Carlo Alberto Baratta (see also lot 247). Baratta was a fresco painter and stage designer as well as a prolific draughtsman and engraver. His style is extremely reminiscent of his fellow Genoese painter, Giovanni David (1743-1790), whose work had an enormous influence on the slightly younger, Baratta. Mary Newcome Schleier remarks on the similarities between the artists, who both treated their subjects with a certain sensitivity, creating charismatic figures and compositions with vivid and strong effects of color.