Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 579

Price Realized: $ 1,312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRANCESCO SOLIMENA
(Nocera dei Pagani 1657-1747 Barra)
The Flight into Egypt.

Pen and brown ink and wash and black chalk on cream laid paper. 176x225 mm; 6 3/4x8 3/4 inches.

Provenance: Fogliani, Rome (Lugt 2851a, upper left recto); unknown collector, indiscernible ink stamp lower right recto; William Miller, New York; private collection, New York.

Another drawing by Solimena, The Education of the Virgin, pen and ink and wash, from apparently the same series relating to the Virgin, was sold at Christie's, London, July 6, 1993, lot 68.