Lot 58: Giuseppe Piattoli (Florence, active 1785-1807)

An album of thirty-six pages bound between boards, comprising compositional and academic studies, including scenes from the Old and New Testament and classical mythology
with inscription 'Pensieri fatti da Giuseppe Piattoli' on the front flyleaf
black chalk, many with white chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, several leaves prepared red, orange, blue or grey, bound in board covers
each leaf 8 x 5 7/8 in. (199 x 149 mm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 28 April 1921 (21s. to Oppé).

Giuseppe Piattoli was Drawing Master at the Florence Academy from 1785-1807, and an official artist at the Tuscan Grand Ducal court. Piattoli is best known as a designer of prints, including two series of Tuscan Proverbi published in 1786 and 1788, for which the preparatory drawings were offered in these Rooms, 2 July 1991, lots 288-289. Five drawings associated with the same series were sold at Christie's Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 92. In addition to genre scenes (see for example lot 49 in the present sale) Piattoli was active as a draughtsman of battle and mythological subjects (U. Ruggieri, 'Drawings by Giuseppe Piattoli', Master Drawings, XVI (1978), pp. 414-418).

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