Lot 1080: Giovanni Maria Bottalla (Savona 1613-1644 Milan)

Giovanni Maria Bottalla (Savona 1613-1644 Milan)
The Three Ages of Man (recto); Study of a foot (verso)
with inscription 'Gio Benedetto Castillione' (on the verso)
red chalk, unframed
5 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (13.2 x 18.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 1988, lot 72, where purchased by
C. Greenberg; and by descent to the present owner.

After studying with Pietro da Cortona, Giovanni Maria Bottalla embarked on a career which took him to Rome, Naples and back to Genoa. While in Rome, he enjoyed the patronage of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, one of two brothers who were also patrons of Pietro da Cortona and who moved in the leading intellectual circle in Rome. The attribution of the present drawing to Bottalla was proposed by Mary Newcome on the occasion of the 1988 sale.