Details
DONATO CRETI (CRÉMONE 1671-1749 BOLOGNE)
Faune jouant de la flûte à une nymphe et reprise de la même composition
signé et daté ‘10 Augusto 1693 - donat Cretti f’ (en bas à gauche)
plume et encre brune, filigrane blason à cinq cercles surmonté d'une couronne
19,8 x 26,6 cm (7 6⁄8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Comte Alessandro Fava (1622-1695), Bologne (avec son inscription associée).
Vente Kornfeld and Klipstein, Berne, juin 1960, lot 62.
Richard (1897-1994) et Trude (1902-1987) Krautheimer (L. 5088), New York et Rome (verso); leur vente, Christie’s, New York, 10 janvier 1996, lot 75.
Collectionneur anonyme (marque ‘FB’ avec feuille de ginkgo biloba, pas dans Lugt) (sur le montage).
Literature
R. Roli, ‘Drawings by Donato Creti. Notes for a chronology’, Master Drawings, XI, n° 1, 1973, p. 26, n° 6, pl. 9.
R. Roli, Donato Creti. 46 disegni inediti, Bologne, 1973, n° 4.
U. Ruggeri, ‘Nuovi disegni di Donato Creti’, Musei Ferraresi. Bollettino Annuale, 4, 1974, p. 20.
H. Joachim et S. Folds McCullagh, Italian drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1979, p. 69, n° 96.
A. Mazza, ‘Dalla eredità di Guido Reni a Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Cinquant’anni di Pittura a Bologna’, in Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1665-1747, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Accademia di Belle Arti et Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologne ; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart ; Musée Pouchkine, Moscou, cat. exp., 1990-1991, p. 58, ill.
A. Mazza, ‘Gli artisti di Palazzo Fava. Collezionismo e mecenatismo artistico a Bologna alla fine del Seicento’, Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, 27, 2003, p. 321, ill.
M. Chiarini, I disegni italiani della Biblioteca dell’Accademia di Romania a Bucarest. Catalogo generale, Florence, 2004, p. 158, n° 96.
S. Twiehaus, Zeichnungen Bolognas und der Emilia 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert. Graphische Sammlung des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 2005, p. 136, n° 83.
M. Riccòmini, Donato Creti. Le opere su carta. Catalogo ragionato, Turin, 2012, p. 34, n° 23.I.
Exhibited
New York, Institute of Fine Arts, Centennial Loan Exhibition. Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and their Families, 1961.
Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College, Centennial Loan Exhibition. Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and their Families, 1963, n° 32.
Durham, NC, Duke University, Department of Art, The Gallery, Italian Master Drawings from the collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, 1966, n° 26.
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Lisbonne, Centro Cultural de Belém, et Porto, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, European Master Drawings from Portuguese Collections, 2000, n° 65 (catalogue par N. Turner).
Further Details
DONATO CRETI, FAUN PLAYING A FLUTE TO A NYMPH, PEN AND BROWN INK
This quickly rendered drawing has been described by Renato Roli as ‘one of the most greatest achievements of the master’s graphic art’ (Roli, op. cit., p. 26). The sheet can be securely dated to 1693, thanks to the inscription added by Creti’s friend and patron, the Bolognese collector Count Alessandro Fava. The immediacy of execution reveals the influence of Venetian art on Creti’s works of the time. The sheet can be compared with a drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago, in the same technique and style, representing Rinaldo and Armida (inv. 1960.836; see Joachim and McCullagh, op. cit., no. 96, ill.).
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