Francesco (1780) Costa

Lot 56: Giovanni Francesco Costa (d. 1773 Venice)

Name: Giovanni Francesco Costa (d. 1773 Venice)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: f79aeafc3e

Est: $2,000 USD - $3,000 USD

Christie'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 31, 2013

Item Overview

Description

Giovanni Francesco Costa (d. 1773 Venice)
An architectural capriccio: the terrace of a villa, with another villa in the distance
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, fragmentary watermark CS in a blazon
12 5/8 x 10 in. (32 x 25.4 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Francesco (1780) Costa

Exhibited

Wellesley, Wellesley College, Jewett Arts Center, Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings, 1960, no. 71 (as Antonio Visentini).
Bloomington, Indiana University, 1965.

Provenance

An unidentified collector's mark (JPR in purple in, verso).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1981, lot 112.

Auction Details

Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection

Christie's

January 31, 2013, 02:00 PM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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