Francesco Zuccarelli
Portrait of an Elderly Woman Holding a Cat
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
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Francesco Zuccarelli
Pitigliano, Umbria 1702 - 1788 Florence
Portrait of an Elderly Woman Holding a Cat
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on buff pap🌜er
229 by 180 mm; 9 by 7 in
their sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 15-17 February 1897, lot 42 (as Chardin);
Private Collection, France;
with Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich,
where acquired, 1990
J. Leautaud, 'Some lesser known aspects of Chardin,' International Studio, August 1927, pp. 13-19, reproduced
This vigorously executed sheet, drawn in a combination of black and white chalk, was formerly attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin but is now, alongside other stylistically comparable sheets, such as a Portrait of an Old Man in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago1, given to Francesco Zuccarelli.
Zuccarelli is widely regarded as the pre-eminent landscape artist to have emerged from his adopted city of Venice in the mid-eighteenth c♐entury, and the present work is a significant and relatively rare departure from the landscape drawings with which he is most frequently associated.
1. Chicago, The Art In🃏stitute of Chicaꦑgo, inv. no. 1960.560