Lot 59: Antonio Domenico Gabbiani , Florence 1652 - 1726 the rape of the sabine women Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk; bears inscription in pen and brown ink: P. Berretini

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk; bears inscription in pen and brown ink: P. Berretini

measurements note 241 by 337mm

C. Monbeig Goguel, Dessins Toscans XVIe-XVIIe Siècles 1620-1800, vol. II, Paris 2005, p. 260, under cat. no. 340

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 1973, lot 29 (as Ciro Ferri);
Herbert List (bears his collector's dry stamp twice, not in Lugt);
with Flavia Ormond, London; acquired in 2000

The old attribution inscribed on this drawing is a testimony to the pervasive influence that Pietro da Cortona's works had on Gabbiani, after he first saw them in Rome. Although his debt to Cortona's celebrated painting of the same subject, now in the Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome,υ1 is obvious here, Gabbiani has imbued the composition with his own rhythm and energy. 1. Anna Lo Bianco, et al., Pietro da Cortona, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Venezia, 1997-98, no. 36