Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 589

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PIETRO ROSELLI
(Venice circa 1700-circa 1771 Venice)
The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints Sebastian and Roch.

Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, double-sided. 251x147 mm; 9 3/4x5 3/4 inches.

Provenance: Private collection, New York.

A similar double-sided pen and ink drawing by Roselli, The Apotheosis of St. Mark, is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (accession number 1973.50.1). Other similar drawings are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. These drawings are all likely studies for commissioned altar paintings.