Lot 71: Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, called Battistino del Gessi , Bologna 1606 - 1640 Rome the assumption of the virgin Pen and brown ink and blue wash, heightened with white, within brown ink framing lines; bears attribution in pencil, lower center on

Pen and brown ink and blue wash, heightened with white, within brown ink framing lines; bears attribution in pencil, lower center on reverse of old mount: Gio. Batista Ruggieri detto il Gessi. / Bolognese Mori nel pontif Di urbano VIII. ; and on reverse: Francesco Gessi... and numbering in blue crayon: //10

measurements note 459 by 262mm; arched top

Henry Hamal (L.12131); his inscription and attribution in brown ink, reverse of old mount: del gessi / ex. coll: Henrici Hamal Leodsis./J.B.;
sale, Paris, Ader, Picard, Tajan, 27 November 1990, lot 35;
sale, Paris, Ader, Picard, Tajan, 18 June 1991, lot 29;
acquired in 1992

Ruggieri was a pupil first of Domenichino and then of Francesco Gessi, alongside whom he worked in Naples, on decorative schemes for the city's palaces and churches.