PIER FRANCESCO MOLA, CALLED IL TICINESE (COLDRERIO 1612-1666 ROME)
PIER FRANCESCO MOLA, CALLED IL TICINESE (COLDRERIO 1612-1666 ROME)
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PIER FRANCESCO MOLA, CALLED IL TICINESE (COLDRERIO 1612-1666 ROME)

A reclining young man seen from the back, with a second study of a reclining male nude

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PIER FRANCESCO MOLA, CALLED IL TICINESE (COLDRERIO 1612-1666 ROME)
A reclining young man seen from the back, with a second study of a reclining male nude
black and red chalk, on two pieces of paper cut and glued together by the artist (?)
8 3⁄8 x 14 ¼ in. (21.4 x 36.4 cm)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 28 March 1968, lot 74.
with Hobhouse, London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Pier Francesco Mola 1612-1666, exhib. cat., Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, and Rome, Musei Capitolini, p. 292, under no. III.117 (entry by N. Turner).
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Lot Essay

Vigorous red and black chalk drawings like the present one are rare in Mola’s surviving œuvre, compared to composition studies in pen and wash. Stylistically, this sheet can be compared with a few other drawings, executed in a similarly energetic manner, in which the the black chalk is employed to render the overall figure, while red is used to depict the flesh color. One of these is the study of a running man seen from behind in the British Museum (inv. 1946-7-13-89; see Turner, op. cit., p. 120, no. III.117, ill. p. 119). Also close in execution is A man walking holding a stick on his right shoulder in the Albertina (inv. 823; see V. Birke and J. Kertész, The Italian Drawings of the Albertina, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 1992, no. 823, ill.).

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