A Fine Late 18thC Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede; Naples; 1797 sub-Art & Sculpture Nottingham

Nottingham

as it dips slightly at the centre back and the whole of lining is in the beautiful canary yellow satin

since the Middle Ages

A spotless museum quality piece with real presence and by probably the greatest ever practitioner in the field

This piece has just the right amount of foxing and character whilst also remaining eminently useful to be just the ticket for hall

A Fine Late 18thC Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede; Naples; 1797 sub-Art & Sculpture NottinghamOrigin: Italian School Period: Neoclassical Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1797 The Study: 20. 5 high x 14. 25 wide The Whole in Frame: 27. 25 high x 20. 5 wide The well executed study of Ganymede, the Trojan youth, shown in profile at shoulder length, deftly worked in charcoals, surviving from the embers of the eighteenth century and signed lower right thus; Eugenia W. Naples May 1797; now presented in a good burr maple frame to a charcoal inset