Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639–1709

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Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms, 1639–1709, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on rose-washed paper, 7-13/16 x 5-5/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639–1709 Rome), Once owned by the distinguished French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), this highly finished drawing appears in the 1775-76 sale catalogue of his collection. It has been identified as preparatory for the frontispiece of 'Il Corradino,' a libretto for a tragedy set in medieval Naples, written by Antonio Caraccio (1630-1702), and published in Rome in 1694

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