ANTONIO CIMATORI, IL VISACCI (URBINO CIRCA 1550-1623 RIMINI)
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ANTONIO CIMATORI, IL VISACCI (URBINO CIRCA 1550-1623 RIMINI)
Saint Anthony the Abbott and members of the Del Monte family wearing the robes of the Order of Saint Anthony
black chalk, pen and brown ink
25.2 x 18 cm (10 x 7 in.)
Provenance
Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), Paris (L. 2097), his mount, inscribed ‘Eques Joseph/ Arpinas.’). Dr Victor Bloch (1883-1968), London; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1963, lot 76 (as Cavaliere d'Arpino). Anthony Powell (1935-2021), London; thence by descent.
Literature
C. Monbeig Goguel, ‘Maniera Zuccaresca et réactions individuelles. Observations sur les dessinateurs autour de Federico Zuccari’, in Der Maler Federico Zuccari ein römischer Virtuoso von europäischem Ruhm, München, 1999, p. 114, fig. 14 (as Antonio Cimatori). G. Zavatta, ‘Disegni inediti di Antonio Cimatori detto Visacci’, Commentari d’arte, 2008, 39-40, p. 57, fig. 2. P. Rosenberg, Les dessins de la collection Mariette, Paris, 2020, I, no. I36 (as Giuseppe Cesari, Cavaliere d'Arpino).