Giuseppe CESARI, known as Cavalier d'ARPIN (Arpino 1568–Rome - Lot 117

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Giuseppe CESARI, known as Cavalier d'ARPIN (Arpino 1568–Rome - Lot 117
Giuseppe CESARI, known as Cavalier d'ARPIN (Arpino 1568–Rome 1640). Study for *The Rape of the Sabine Women*. Black chalk, stump, and white chalk highlights on brown paper. Inscribed “d’Arpino” in the lower left corner in pen and brown ink (Stains, sun-faded, and small creases.) H: 29.2 cm; W: 19.2 cm. Our drawing is undoubtedly an initial sketch for the groups on the right of the fresco The Rape of the Sabine Women, painted around 1635–36 in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii at the Capitoline Museum in Rome Bibliography: - M.S. Bolzoni, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino, Maestro del designo, Catalogo Ragionato dell' opera grafica, Ugo Bozzi editore, Rome, 2013, p. 393, no. 289, ill. Provenance - Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, July 9, 2002, lot no. 15, ill. Galerie Monique Martel, 2003 Expert: Cabinet DE BAYSER Part I: Thursday, June 18, 2026 - Chapter 6: Collection D, from a mansion on the Right Bank
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