Thursday, December 5, 2019

Red Chalk – Italian Drawings – 1750-1800

Maria Christina Campana
Antique Portrait-Sculpture of Empress Sabina
ca. 1776
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pompeo Batoni
Study for an Allegorical Figure of Vigilance
before 1787
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Pompeo Batoni
Figure Study for Polyphemus
ca. 1761
drawing
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro

Corrado Giaquinto
Model carrying Covered Basket
1753
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gian Paolo Panini
Four Studies of Running Footmen
1756
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Ruins of Hadrian's Villa
ca. 1777
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ignazio Enrico Hugford
Académie
before 1778
drawing
British Museum

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Académie
before 1781
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Pan and Syrinx
before 1781
drawing
National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro 

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Study for Two Saint-Martyrs in Clouds
before 1781
drawing
National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Giambattista Tiepolo
Head of a Youth
before 1770
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giambattista Tiepolo
Fallen Angel
ca. 1752
drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Gaetano Gandolfi
Académie
ca. 1750
drawing
Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio)

Gaetano Gandolfi
Académie
late 18th century
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Gaetano Gandolfi
Prometheus
late 18th century
drawing
National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Gaetano Gandolfi
Hercules and Omphale
ca. 1780-90
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid