Lot 120: Carlo Alberto Baratta , Genoa 1754 - 1815 juno seated in the clouds, a peacock by her side Point of the brush and gray-brown wash, over black chalk, within black chalk framing lines, on paper washed gray

Point of the brush and gray-brown wash, over black chalk, within black chalk framing lines, on paper washed gray

measurements note 217 by 159 mm

Two other drawings of gods and goddesses by Baratta, presumably from the same series, have been identified: a Minerva in the Uffizi and a Jupiter, sold in Paris.υ1 Both are in the same medium as the present sheet and the dimensions of the Jupiter are virtually identical. In her cataloguing of the Uffizi drawing, Mary Newcome Schleier suggests that the Minerva may be part of a decorative program celebrating the imprese of Genoa, or may relate to fresco cycles in Palazzo Pallavicini.υ2 1. See respectively, M. Newcome Schleier, Disegni Genovesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo, Florence 1989, pp. 219-21, cat. 114, fig. 153 and sale, Paris, Christie's, 17 March 2005, lot 39 2. Ibid., p. 220-1