Fortunato Duranti

The Birth of Bacchus from the Thigh of Jupiter

Auction Closed

January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

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Fortunato Duranti

Montefortino 1787 - 1851

The Birth of Bacchus from the Thigh of Jupiter


Pen and brown ink and wash, within brown ink framing lines

195 by 263 mm; 7 6/8 by 10 3/8 in

With C. & J. Goodfriend, New York,
where acquired, 1998
Little is known about this imaginative and unconventional artist whose graphic style is so bewilderingly modern in its approach. Of the known surviving works, his drawings are more numerous than his paintings, with the largest collections of his works on paper housed in the Biblioteca Comunale, Fermo and in the Cooper Union Museum, New York.
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