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School of Paolo Veronese (1528-88)
Venice Enthroned, with Five Doges 1575 - 1600
Pen and ink over black chalk, with accidental colour stains | 20.6 x 28.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906696
School of Paolo Veronese (1528-88)
Venice Enthroned, with Five Doges 1575 - 1600
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A drawing of a personification of Venice enthroned with a lion at her feet, flanked on the left by two doges, and on the right by two further doges and another man holding a doge's cap. Stamped indistinctly with the eight-pointed star associated with Nicholas Lanier, and inscribed in the associated hand at the lower edge 'Paolo Veronese'.
Catalogued by the Tietzes (Drawings of the Venetian Painters, 1944, no. 2189) under 'Heirs of Paolo Veronese', suggesting the drawing might have reference to 'the Morosini family which up to the end of the XVI century was the only one to have produced four doges (one of the five has not donned his doge's cap).' It is in any case a spirited original sketch close to Veronese.Provenance
From the collection of Nicholas Lanier (his stamp, Lugt 2885, and associated inscription); thus presumably acquired by Charles II. Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800, p. 59, ‘Titiano Paolo Veronese e Scuola Veneziana’, among ‘29. to 42. Of Paolo Veronese and Carlo Cagliari.’
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Pen and ink over black chalk, with accidental colour stains
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20.6 x 28.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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