PIER LEONE GHEZZI (ROME 1674-1755)

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ID 1027661
Lot 421 | PIER LEONE GHEZZI (ROME 1674-1755)
PIER LEONE GHEZZI (ROME 1674-1755)

Nude study of a reclining man holding a stick (recto); Nude study of a seated man holding a stick and other studies (verso)

inscribed ‘Pierleone Ghezzi fece./ come era scritto per/ questo foglio me-/ desimo’ by Alessandro Maggiori (bottom left)

red chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper, watermark initial in an oval

15 ½ x 21 5/8 in. (39.5 x 55 cm)





Provenance

Alessandro Maggiori (1764-1834), Rome (L. 3005b, with his inscription ‘Appartiene ad Alessandro Maggiori/ il quale lo comprò in Roma/ nel 1808’ (verso)).

Mrs. Lester Cook; Sotheby’s, London, 22 October 1984, lot 133.

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.





Literature

M.C. Dorati da Empoli, Pier Leone Ghezzi, un protagonista del Settecento romano, Rome, 2008, p. 49.
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