SIGISMONDO CAULA (MODÈNE 1637-1724) - photo 1
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SIGISMONDO CAULA (MODÈNE 1637-1724)

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22.03.2023 15:00UTC +02:00
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ID 922532
Lot 25 | SIGISMONDO CAULA (MODÈNE 1637-1724)
SIGISMONDO CAULA (MODÈNE 1637-1724)

Saint Jean-Baptiste dans le désert

monogrammé ‘[S] C’ (en bas à gauche) et avec inscriptions ‘n 118’ (verso)

pierre noire, sanguine, lavis de sanguine rehaussé de blanc sur papier brun, filigrane figure dans un cartouche

28,5 x 19,5 cm (11 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)





Provenance

Vente Sotheby’s, Londres, 2 juillet 1997, lot 121.

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



Exhibited

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Lisbonne, Centro Cultural de Belém, et Porto, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, European Master Drawings from Portuguese Collections, 2000, n° 58 (catalogue par N. Turner).

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Dibujos de Maestros Europeos en las Colecciones Portuguesas, 1500-1800, 2002, n° 37 (catalogue par N. Turner).



Post lot text

SIGISMONDO CAULA, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST IN THE WILDERNESS, BLACK AND RED CHALK, RED WASH, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE, ON LIGHT BROWN PAPER

Sigismondo Caula was one of the leading painters and decorators in Modena at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th Century. He trained under the French artist active in Italy, Jean Boulanger (1606-1660), and mainly worked for the Este family, rulers of Modena and the surrounding region. This powerful sheet was probably created as an autonomous work, as indicated by its painterly style, the drawn framing lines, and the presence of the artist’s monogram. Red ink and wash drawings highlighted with white are distinctive of the artist’s graphic production, and comparable sheets are, for example, in the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris (inv. 1981-T.35; see J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1983, I, no. 405, III, pls. 456 and 457), as well as in the British Museum (inv. 1920,1220.1).
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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