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Anon (Italian School?) 1700 woman tending the home altar fire or Dido sacrificing to Juno

Drawing, black chalk on pink laid paper

22,7x15,7 cm

 

Unsigned

No watermark

 

Collectors marks:

John Auldjo (Lugt 48) - Cursive "A" in black ink

Victor Winthrop Newman (Lugt 2540) - drystamp "VWN"

 

A woman appears to be feeding a Baroque ornamental tripod brazier with her right hand while gathering up her garments with her left.

 

Tentatively Italian School as this may have been part (Lot 49?) a sale of Italian drawings at Christie's 14 July 1859 that also included works by the Carracci brothers, Carlo Maratta (Maratti),Lanfranco, Albano (Francesco Albani?), Rubens, Salvator Rosa, and others, and it also looks like a study like that of "Dido's Sacrifice To Juno" by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610-1662) .

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Uploaded on January 15, 2022
Taken on June 17, 2020