Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Blue Paper – Italian Drawings – 1700-1800

Benedetto Luti
Académie
ca. 1700-1720
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pietro de' Pietri
Allegorical Composition with Figures of Painting and Fame
before 1716
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Francesco Fernandi
Head of a Boy looking up
before 1720
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

Paolo Gerolamo Piola
Standing Figure of Apollo with Lyre
before 1724
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sebastiano Ricci
Juxtaposed Heads of Boy and Young Woman
ca. 1726
drawing (colored chalks) on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Stefano Pozzi
Apollo and Daphne
1730
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Stefano Pozzi after Domenichino
St Cecilia distributing Alms
(after fresco in Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome)
ca. 1750
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of a Daughter of King George II
before 1752
drawing on blue paper
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jacopo Amigoni
Woman dressed for a Masked Ball
before 1752
drawing on blue paper
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Pompeo Batoni
Académie
1765
drawing on blue paper
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pompeo Batoni
Académie
1765
drawing on blue paper
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giacomo Zoboli
Two Angels
before 1767
drawing on blue paper
Morgan Library, New York

Giambattista Tiepolo
Drapery Study for St Paschal Baylon
ca. 1767-69
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Giambattista Tiepolo
Head
before 1770
drawing on blue paper
Morgan Library, New York

Giambattista Tiepolo
Eagle
before 1770
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York