LUCA GIORDANO (NAPLES 1634-1705)

Lot 9
18.05.2022 14:30UTC +01:00
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ID 761296
Lot 9 | LUCA GIORDANO (NAPLES 1634-1705)
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€ 2 000 – 3 000
LUCA GIORDANO (NAPLES 1634-1705)Étude de deux hippocampesinscrit ‘Luca Giordano’ (en bas à droite)graphite, plume et encre brune, mise au carreau au graphite19 x 29 cm (7 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄8 in.) Provenance Vente Christie’s, Londres, 12 décembre 1978, lot 87. Post lot text LUCA GIORDANO, STUDY OF TWO HIPPOCAMPS, GRAPHITE, PEN AND BROWN INK ON A SQUARED SHEETIn this drawing Luca Giordano depicts two hippocamps with their tails intertwined standing at the edge of an architectural frame. The two animals are similarly painted in the fresco of the Marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite, part of the monumental decoration of the Galleria degli Specchi in Palazzo Medici Ricciardi in Florence (O. Ferrari, G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano. Opera Completa, Naples, 1992, I, p. 27). The important decoration, representing an elaborate allegory of the apotheosis of the Medici family, was executed by the artist between 1682 and 1685.
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