Attributed to Tommaso Minardi (1787-1871). Pallas Athene; and Diana, pencil line drawings, circa 1823, both numbered with a decorative flourish in pen and brown ink upper right, Diana '126' and Pallas Athene '82(?)', Pallas Athene further dated and inscribed in pen and brown ink at the upper reverse sheet edge '-18(?)20' / Annata à Lugini', each on fine laid paper with an Encircled Fleur de Lys watermark, some minor foxing and staining towards the sheet edges, each 33 x 22.5 cm (13 x 8.75 ins), in matching mounts and glazed frames (61 x 45.5 cm) Provenance: With Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Art Ltd, his labels verso; Private Collection, Herefordshire, England. It is likely that the artist produced these neoclassical line drawings to be reproduced as etchings with aquatint by Lodovico Prosseda (flourished 1823), whose neoclassical, frieze like etching with aquatint, Hector, was executed after a drawing by Minardi and dated 1823, now in the British Museum (accession number 1872,1012.4721). The stylised, linear treatment of the etching is strongly akin to the present stylised drawing. Minardi was an influential figure in the academic world of 19th century Italian art, who was appointed to the chair of drawing at the Accademia di San Luca, a position he held until 1868.
Attributed to Tommaso Minardi (1787-1871). Pallas Athene; and Diana, pencil line drawings, circa 1823, both numbered with a decorative flourish in pen and brown ink upper right, Diana '126' and Pallas Athene '82(?)', Pallas Athene further dated and inscribed in pen and brown ink at the upper reverse sheet edge '-18(?)20' / Annata à Lugini', each on fine laid paper with an Encircled Fleur de Lys watermark, some minor foxing and staining towards the sheet edges, each 33 x 22.5 cm (13 x 8.75 ins), in matching mounts and glazed frames (61 x 45.5 cm) Provenance: With Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Art Ltd, his labels verso; Private Collection, Herefordshire, England. It is likely that the artist produced these neoclassical line drawings to be reproduced as etchings with aquatint by Lodovico Prosseda (flourished 1823), whose neoclassical, frieze like etching with aquatint, Hector, was executed after a drawing by Minardi and dated 1823, now in the British Museum (accession number 1872,1012.4721). The stylised, linear treatment of the etching is strongly akin to the present stylised drawing. Minardi was an influential figure in the academic world of 19th century Italian art, who was appointed to the chair of drawing at the Accademia di San Luca, a position he held until 1868.
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