Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 583

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GIOVANNI ANTONIO PELLEGRINI
(Venice 1675-1741 Venice)
The Massacre of the Innocents.

Pen and brown ink and wash and pencil on cream laid paper mounted on card stock. 120x171 mm; 5x7 inches.

Provenance: Unknown collector, violet ink stamp with the initial GT and a crown (Lugt 3340, lower right recto); private collection, Massachusetts.

There is a larger version of this subject by Pellegrini, drawn in brown ink and wash with red chalk, at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (accession number 1961.22).