Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Blue Paper – Italian Drawings – 1650-1700

Giovanni Angelo Canini
Study for Fallen Angel
1655
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Valerio Castello
The Finding of Moses
before 1659
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

follower of Carlo Maratti
Youth pulling off a Sock
ca. 1650-1700
drawing on blue paper
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

attributed to Giacomo Cavedone
Studies of Hands
before 1660
drawing on blue paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

attributed to Flaminio Torre
Studies of a Standing Woman and the Head of Christ
before 1661
drawing on blue paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
Samson slaying a Philistine
before 1662
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Stage Design for Ballet
1674
drawing on blue paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Domenico Gargiulo
Studies of a Standing Putto and a Helmeted Head
before 1675
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Niccolò Berrettoni
The Holy Family with St Anne
1679
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Giacinto Calandrucci
Study for the Figure of Aurora
ca. 1680-90
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Study of Trees
before 1680
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Carlo Maratti
Study for St Francis de Sales
ca. 1691
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giacinto Brandi
St Peter liberated from Prison by the Angel
before 1691
drawing on blue paper
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Mattia Preti
Workman with Cord
before 1699
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Luca Giordano
Young Man pulling a Rope
ca. 1700
drawing on blue paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum