PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Judgment of a woman in front of the King. Drawing. 1720-1778.
Estimation :
4 000 € / 6 000 - 8
Description
Sheet mm. 169x223. Watercolor drawing on ivory paper: pen with black ink, brush with brown color and white lead.
Very complex scene with the king on the throne on the left, the woman kneeling in the center in the foreground, on the right a dog and a baby colored with white lead, many people attending, all within an architectural setting that alludes to an open space. The outlines of the figures are rapidly drawn, as in a sketch, with black ink; watercolor and white lead are used for the volume and depth of perspective.The drawing looks very similar to a sheet present at the Pierpont Morgan Library, entitled "Assassination Scene": the style in the characterization of many characters, the use of watercolor for volumes, the vertical and horizontal lines that suggest an architecture on background have a surprising affinity. In another drawing of the Pierpont Morgan, Temple of Isis at Pompeii, a character standing in the foreground is depicted with a posture that recalls the man to which the woman kneeling in the center of the scene: in particular, the legs of these characters are dotted in almost identical manner.
See: Stampfle, Felice, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. XXXII - XXXIII, n. A-3 [Assassination Scene] and A-7 [Temple of Isis at Pompeii].
Ottimo stato di conservazione.
Very complex scene with the king on the throne on the left, the woman kneeling in the center in the foreground, on the right a dog and a baby colored with white lead, many people attending, all within an architectural setting that alludes to an open space. The outlines of the figures are rapidly drawn, as in a sketch, with black ink; watercolor and white lead are used for the volume and depth of perspective.The drawing looks very similar to a sheet present at the Pierpont Morgan Library, entitled "Assassination Scene": the style in the characterization of many characters, the use of watercolor for volumes, the vertical and horizontal lines that suggest an architecture on background have a surprising affinity. In another drawing of the Pierpont Morgan, Temple of Isis at Pompeii, a character standing in the foreground is depicted with a posture that recalls the man to which the woman kneeling in the center of the scene: in particular, the legs of these characters are dotted in almost identical manner.
See: Stampfle, Felice, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. XXXII - XXXIII, n. A-3 [Assassination Scene] and A-7 [Temple of Isis at Pompeii].
Ottimo stato di conservazione.
