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FRANCESCO SOLIMENA (ATTRIBUTED TO) (Nocera dei Pagani 1657-1747 Barra) The Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas.
Pen and brown ink and gray wash with black chalk on cream laid paper, lightly squared for transfer in black chalk. 210x225 mm; 8 1/4x9 inches.
Provenance: Thomas Hudson, London (Lugt 2432, verso); Christie's, London, July 4, 1995, lot 113 (as Solimena); Colnaghi, London, 1996 (as Solimena); private collection, New York.
Published: Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 1996, number 34.
Exhibited: "Master Drawings," Colnaghi, London and New York, 1996, number 34; "Greenwich Collects: Wyeth, Italian Drawings, Chinese Antiquities," July 6-August 31, 2014.
According to Colnaghi, "The drawing is a study for a painting commissioned by Raimondo Buonaccorsi (1669-1743) for his palace in the Marchigian hill town of Macerata, known through a ricordo formerly in the Scholz-Formi collection in Hamburg. The painting, part of a decorative scheme of scenes from Virgil's Aeneid, was completed in July 1714, when it was mentioned in a letter by Buonaccorsi (dated July 6, 1714)."
