Lot 166: Giovanni Domenico Ferretti Florence 1692 - 1768 (?) , a bacchanale with nymphs, satyrs and putti black chalk and grey wash

black chalk and grey wash

measurements note 280 by 158mm

Francesca Baldassari, Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Milan 2002, p. 160, reproduced p. 161, fig. 83d

London, P. & D. Colnaghi, Old Master Drawings, 1984, no. 39

Francesca Baldassari associates this drawing with a painting of a somewhat similar subject in the Gallerie Fiorentine, Florence (fig. 1). There are significant differences in the composition, and in fact this drawing is far closer to one sold in London, Sotheby's, 2 July 1984, lot 75 and somewhat to one in the Uffizi.υ1 In format it is closer to one of four pastoral scenes she illustrates as fig. 80. The technique is very characteristic of Ferretti's draughtsmanship. 1 Baldassari, op. cit., cat. nos. 83c, 83a