ID 1361041
Lot 30 | PIETRO TESTA (LUCCA 1611-1650 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
Fragment of a terracotta plaque with a dancing maiden and a candelabrum
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
10 ¼ x 7 7/8 in. (26 x 20 cm)
Provenance
Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Rome; by descent to his brother
Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689), Rome; by descent to his grandson
Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo (d. 1739), Rome.
Pope Clement XI (1649-1721), Rome.
Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), Rome.
King George III (1738-1820), London.
Richard Dalton (1715-1791), London.
John MacGowan (d. 1803), London.
Charles Townley (1737-1805), London; by descent to
John Townley, London; Sotheby's, London, 10-11 May 1865, part of lot 405.
Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818–1878), London; Phillips, London, 12 December 1990, lot 238.
with Mia Weiner, Norfolk (Aspects of Antiquity in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, New York, 1992, no. 35).
Literature
A. Claridge and E. Dodero, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Sarcophagi and other reliefs, part 3, II, London, 2022, no. 584, ill.
| Artist: | Pietro Testa (Il Lucchesino, 1611 - 1650) |
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| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Pietro Testa (Il Lucchesino, 1611 - 1650) |
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| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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