ID 1132768
Lot 41 | FRANCESCO CACCIANIGA (MILAN 1700-1781 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 6 000
The Fall of Phaeton
with inscription ‘Caccianiga eseguito in un soffitto di villa Pinciana’ (lower center)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, squared for transfer
16 7⁄8 x 13 ¼ in. (42.5 x 33.3 cm)
Provenance
Unidentified collector’s mark (L. 2508).
Willem Anne Lestevenon (1750-1830), Paris and Haarlem.
Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1829), Aix en Provence (L. 1710); Paris, 14-19 April 1834, lot 113 (as Paolo Caccianiga).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 1993, lot 304.
with Nissman, Abromson, Brookline.
Literature
F. Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d’Estampes. Fondation Custodia, available online www.marquesdecollections.fr (accessed in November 2023), under Lugt 2508.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Making a Prince’s Museum. Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese, 2000, pp. 51-52, ill. (catalogue by C. Paul).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 137, ill. (essay by C. S. Ackley).
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