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 Innocenzo Carlone
The Marriage of Hercules and Hebe
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Carlo Innocenzo Carlone
Scaria 1686 - 1775 Como
The Marriage of Hercules and Hebe
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk in a quatrefoil;
extensively inscribed in brown ink, lower centre: Il Dissegno rapresenta lo sposalizio di Ercole con Hebe in Cielo fingendosi che il Dio Imeneo / conduca Hebe ad Ercole, ed esso la prenda per moglia, piu in alto in disparte si vede / La Dea Venere con le tre Grazie con diversi Amorini con face acere e fioriche ... / da baso vicino ed Ercole due Amorini, uno can Bacile l'altro che presenta a la sposa / diverse colane et altre Gioie;
bears old attribution and numbering in brown ink, upper right: C Carlone 6
330 by 242 mm; 13 by 9 1/2 in
Another version of this drawing, though without the appealing application of brown wash, is in a Private Collection, Munich.1 Brigitte Langer suggests that these two drawings possibly relate to ceilings Carlone painted in 1726 in the Palazzo Gallio in Como, or four years later in Heimsheim for Friedrich Wilhelm von Grävenitz.
1. P. Krückmann et al, Carlo Carlone, 1686-1775, Der Ansbacher Auftrag, exhib. cat., Residenz Ansbach, 1990, pp. 174-5, no. 26, reproduced fig. 183