Exhibition of 15th-19th Century Drawings
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An Exhibition of Old Master and 19th Century Drawings
will be held from
June 12th to July 11th, 1997
at
Colnaghi
15 Old Bond Street
London W1X 4JL
England
Jean-Luc Baroni, Director of Colnaghi in London, is pleased to announce the gallery's annual exhibition of Old Master and 19th Century drawings, to be held from the 12th of June to the 11th of July, 1997. The exhibition will include over 50 drawings - mostly by Italian and French artists - ranging in date from the late 15th to the 19th centuries.
The earliest drawing in the show is a study of the head of a man by a Paduan artist close to Mantegna, working around 1450. This is followed by a strong group of 16th century drawings, including two large panels by Girolamo Genga, a superb red chalk 'Woman and Child' by Taddeo Zuccaro and a double-sided sheet of studies by Polidoro da Caravaggio. A group of six newly-discovered landscape drawings by Jacopo Ligozzi, preparatory for prints illustrating a guide to the Franciscan monastery of La Verna published in 1621, are to be shown alongside a stunning Saint Jerome by Agostino Carracci, a rare and beautiful landscape by Pietro da Cortona (also previously unpublished), a previously unrecognized study by Mattia Preti for a ceiling fresco in the Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone, and drawings by Francesco Vanni, Carlo Maratta, Guercino and others. A large and visually stunning drawing by Joseph Heintz the Elder, a working modello for one of the painter's most important works, the 'Fall of Phaeton' in Leipzig, is another new discovery, as is a magnificent compositional drawing by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a design for a never-executed papal tomb. Later drawings of the Italian school include a rare and beautiful 'Crucifixion' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, one of only three known early drawings by him which are studies for prints, and a superb watercolour still life of cherries in a bowl by Giovanni Boldini.
Among the French drawings are an extremely rare pastel portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Simon Vouet, datable to around 1630, and a large red chalk study of a standing young girl wearing a shimmering silk dress by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Also to be exhibited are two drawings by Théodore Géricault - one of which is a boldly-drawn watercolour study of labourers and a cart horse, drawn while the artist was in England in around 1821 - as well as an equestrian scene by his disciple, Alfred De Dreux. An oil sketch by Puvis de Chavannes is included in the exhibition, which concludes with a pastel drawing of a dancer at rest by Edgar Degas, datable to around 1879.
The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, fully-illustrated in colour and available from the gallery in London. For further information, please contact Stephen Ongpin at Colnaghi in London: Tel. (0171) 491-7408 and Fax (0171) 491-8851 or via e-mail at sron...@aol.com or 10277...@compuserve.com