Francesco Fontebasso
Four Studies of Hands, 1730s-1750s
Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue paper
60 x 47 cm (framed)
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf, London
His posthumous sale (‘Fine Italian and French Drawings From the Collection of The
Late Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Part II’), London, Sotheby’s, 4 July 1977, lot 144 (as attributed
to Georg Anton Urlaub)
Pietro Scarpa, Venice
Mia Weiner, New York, in 1985
Acquired from her in 1990 by John O’Brien, Charles Town, West Virginia (Lugt 4230),
his handwritten collector’s mark O’ in pencil on the verso.
Exhibitions
New York, Mia Weiner at Piero Corsini, Inc., Old Master Drawings, 1985.
Literature
Marina Magrini, ‘Francesco Fontebasso: I disegni’, Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte,
1990, p.184, no.113 (not illustrated).