Old Master and British Works on Paper

Old Master and British Works on Paper

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Carlo Donelli, called il Vimercati

A Seated Man Looking Up

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February 2, 06:37 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Carlo Donelli, called il Vimercati

1660 - 1715

A Seated Man Looking Up


Red chalk;

bears numbering and attribution on the old mount: 235. / 381 (crossed out) 105 (crossed out) / No 96. (crossed out) and Porta Giuseppe Veneziano. detto Salviati 1585

300 by 228 mm; 11¾ by 9 in.

Sale, New York, Christie's, 22 January 2003, lot 46, where purchased by the late owner

Very typical of Vimercati's graphic style in the strong and vigorous use of the red chalk, the present drawing can be compared with several others by the artist, in Venice and Milan.1  Vimercati was most probably a pupil of Ercole Procaccini the Younger (c.1605-1680) and his style was profoundly influenced by the work of Daniele Crespi (1598-1630).


1. Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia (see, U. Ruggeri, Disegni Lombardi, Milan 1982, nos. 150-152), and Milan, Ambrosiana (A. Barigozzi and R. Bossaglia, Disegni del settecento lombardo, Vicenza 1973, no. 97-98).