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DOMENICO PIOLA (GÊNES 1627-1703)

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22.03.2023 15:00UTC +02:00
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ID 922508
Lot 19 | DOMENICO PIOLA (GÊNES 1627-1703)
DOMENICO PIOLA (GÊNES 1627-1703)

Projet de plafond (Allégorie de l’Automne)

avec inscriptions ‘N° 37 (?) Collezione St Varni/ Dipinti nel Palazzo Brignole’ (sur le montage)

traces de pierre noire, plume et encre brune, lavis brun

36,5 x 28,4 cm (14 3/8 x 11 2⁄8 in)





Provenance

Santo Varni (1807-1885), Gênes (avec son numéro associé en bas à gauche) (L. 3531) ; sa vente, G. Sambon, Gênes, décembre 1887 (lot non identifié).

Adolphe Augustin Rey de Villette (1864-1934), Boulogne-sur-Seine et Paris (L. 2200a) (verso).

Vente Sotheby’s, Londres, 5 juillet 2000, lot 43.

Collectionneur anonyme (marque ‘FB’ avec feuille de ginkgo biloba, pas dans Lugt) (sur le montage).



Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Dibujos de Maestros Europeos en las Colecciones Portuguesas, 1500-1800, 2002, n° 34 (catalogue par N. Turner).

Lisbonne, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, European Master Drawings from Portuguese Collections II. Italy and Portugal, 2021, n° 58 (catalogue par N. Turner).



Post lot text

DOMENICO PIOLA, DESIGN FOR A CEILING DECORATION WITH AN ALLEGORY OF AUTUMN, BLACK CHALK, PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH

The drawing is a preparatory sketch for a section of the ceiling decoration of the Sala dell’Autunno in Palazzo Rosso in Genoa (previously known as Palazzo Brignole Sale), executed by Domenico Piola around 1687-1688 (fig. 1; see E. Gavazza, Lo spazio dipinto. Il grande affresco Genovese nel ’600, Genoa, 1989, p. 158, figs. 380-382). Another drawing for the entire ceiling decoration is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (inv. E.4475-1920; see Gavazza, op. cit., fig. 383).
Fig. 1. Domenico Piola, Design for a ceiling of the Sala dell’Autunno. Palazzo Rosso, Genoa.
Artist:Domenico Piola (1627 - 1703)
Genre:Allegory
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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