Frieze project with allegorical figures
Novelli, Pietro Antonio
* 1729 in Venice † 1804 in Venice
Pen and brown ink, grey, brown and black wash, heightened with white on ochre paper tinted in purple. Size of sheet: c. 18.7 x 30 cm. Framed.
Provenance: Boisgirard, Paris, DESSINS ET TABLEAUX ANCIENS, 28 April 1994, lot. 23 (€ 12,348);
Didier Aaron, Paris, 2006;
Private collection, London.
This rich and fresh drawing is executed in a technique similar to five drawings by Novelli in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris representing virtues (inv. 2412-2416). It might be related to a series of studies for an allegorical interior decoration, the two female figures with butterfly wings in our drawing could be an allegory of air. Other similar sheets illustrating personifications of Winds and Seasons appeared on the market.
With the other study by Novelli £ 16,500
As a pair £ 16,500