ITALIAN - NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL 18thC - RELIGIOUS SCENE ATTR. FALCIATORE - INK DRAWING
Item History & Price
After acquiring the "Lindsay" collection, I managed to buy another collection of Italian drawings. The drawings of this collection should all be situated in the Neapolitan School of the 17th and 18th century.
The present drawing, executed in pen and ink over a red chalk underdrawing on laid watermarked paper, depicts a religious scene, showing an angel (?) decending from the sky, handing over something Saint Peter, resting in a wooded landscape.This drawing, for sure, was a pr...eparatory study for a larger scale painting.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Italian-Neapolitan School, attributed to Filippo Falciatore.
FILIPPO FALCIATORE (Naples 1718 - Naples 1768) : Italian painter, draughtsman, active in Naples. Falciatore trained under Paolo de Matteis and soon afterwards Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, an artist whose influence was to pervade all his early work, inspiring small pictures bathed in clear, silvery light and azure tonalities that gradually shaped his Rococo style. His early works are mostly scenes from the Old and New Testament, now dispersed among public and private collections both in Italy and abroad. In these works, while following the footsteps of the master, he updated the schemes with a new sensitivity. Of his activity as fresco-painter little remains (the first point of reference being 1741, when he frescoed the vault and walls of the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine Maggiore in Naples). A number of small genre paintings depicting bourgeois daily life in Naples, street scenes, local customs and other narrative events date from the 1740s and are often more Rococo and French in taste. Also, several mythological paintings date from this time when Falciatore was at the height of his success.
Period : ca. 1740-1750.
Size : 18, 3x10, 9cm (without support).
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Attached to a paper support by the corners. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The present drawing, executed in pen and ink over a red chalk underdrawing on laid watermarked paper, depicts a religious scene, showing an angel (?) decending from the sky, handing over something Saint Peter, resting in a wooded landscape.This drawing, for sure, was a pr...eparatory study for a larger scale painting.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Italian-Neapolitan School, attributed to Filippo Falciatore.
FILIPPO FALCIATORE (Naples 1718 - Naples 1768) : Italian painter, draughtsman, active in Naples. Falciatore trained under Paolo de Matteis and soon afterwards Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, an artist whose influence was to pervade all his early work, inspiring small pictures bathed in clear, silvery light and azure tonalities that gradually shaped his Rococo style. His early works are mostly scenes from the Old and New Testament, now dispersed among public and private collections both in Italy and abroad. In these works, while following the footsteps of the master, he updated the schemes with a new sensitivity. Of his activity as fresco-painter little remains (the first point of reference being 1741, when he frescoed the vault and walls of the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine Maggiore in Naples). A number of small genre paintings depicting bourgeois daily life in Naples, street scenes, local customs and other narrative events date from the 1740s and are often more Rococo and French in taste. Also, several mythological paintings date from this time when Falciatore was at the height of his success.
Period : ca. 1740-1750.
Size : 18, 3x10, 9cm (without support).
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Attached to a paper support by the corners. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
