Lot 106: - Johann Paul Schor, called Giovanni Paolo Tedesco , Innsbruck 1615 - 1674 Rome a sheet of studies with designs for fountains Pen and brown ink and grey wash; a slight sketch in black chalk of another fountain on the verso ; dated and inscribed in

Pen and brown ink and grey wash; a slight sketch in black chalk of another fountain on the verso ; dated and inscribed in brown ink: adv 2 febbraio 1673 / ...di purg ...; further inscribed in black chalk: disegno del' Acqua ; a scale numbered 1 - 5

measurements note 274 by 186 mm

Bears unidentified collector's mark, verso (L.2882)

Schor arrived in Rome in 1640, and became a member of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1654. He was often employed as a draughtsman by Bernini, whose influence is seen in the present drawing, and is best known for his elaborate decorative projects, such as the designs for the state coaches of Queen Cristina of Sweden. We are most grateful to Jennifer Montagu for proposing the attribution. Dr Montagu has published three comparable drawings by Schor which show the same freedom of line and fluidly drawn figures that we see in the present sheet.υ1 Also comparable is the calligraphy of the autograph inscriptions on two of the designs. 1. J. Montagu, Roman Baroque Sculpture: the Industry of Art, New Haven 1989, pp. 191-3, figs. 265, 267-8