The Dream of Joseph

Details

Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio 1612-1666 Rome)
The Dream of Joseph
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on buff paper
10 ½ x 7 5/8 in. (26.6 x 19.4 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 March 2004, lot 86.

Literature

N. Turner, Roman Baroque Drawings c. 1620 to c. 1700, London, 1999, I, under no. 216, ill.

Special Notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A preparatory study for The Dream of Joseph in the National Gallery of Ireland, for which two additional studies are known: one in Düsseldorf and one formerly in the collection of Alfred Normand (S. Brink, Zeichnungen des Pier Francesco Mola, Düsseldorf, 2002, no. 15, ill.; and Christie's, Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 32).

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