A drawing by Saraceni at Chatsworth

• Autores: Joachim Jacoby
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1272, 2009, págs. 153-156
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A two-sided chalk drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees, Derbyshire, England, can now be attributed to the Venetian artist Carlo Saraceni (c. 1580–1620). On the recto of the sheet are Two studies of a horse's head, while the verso bears Studies of a female figure, drapery and the head of a child. The verso figures bear a close relationship with Saraceni's painting The finding of Moses, in the collection of the Fondazione Longhi in Florence, Italy. It seems likely that the study on the recto was made in preparation for another composition by Saraceni that, as yet, remains unknown. The possibility that Saraceni used chalk as a preparatory medium makes it tempting to attribute a number of heretofore unidentified 17th-century Italian school works to him. However, some caution is needed in this practice, as similarities can be misleading in the field of attributions.