Jan 23, 2003 - Sale 1957

Sale 1957 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ITALIAN SCHOOL, 17TH-CENTURY
Minerva Appearing to Cadmus While Battling a Dragon.

Pen and brown ink and wash and blue wash on cream laid paper. 223x267 mm; 8 3/4x10 5/8 inches. Inscribed "Batt Marcola" in ink, verso. With a drawing of Saint Stephen in pencil, verso.

A comparable drawing by Giuseppe Cesari, Il Cavaliere d'Arpino, Perseus befreit Andromeda, is in the Albertina, Vienna, inv. no. 761.