Pier Francesco MOLA (Coldrerio 1612-Rome 1666) - Lot 8

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Pier Francesco MOLA (Coldrerio 1612-Rome 1666) - Lot 8
Pier Francesco MOLA (Coldrerio 1612-Rome 1666) The appearance of an angel to Hagar and Ishmael Pen and brown ink, brown wash over red chalk sketch 23.2 x 38.5 cm (Central and vertical folds and lower left, slightly oiled, small stains). Bears an annotation in the lower left of the mount Fco. Mola, and an old inventory label no. 12/219. Our drawing is preparatory to "Agar and Ishmael", kept at Palazzo Colonna in Rome, dated circa 1654 (see: exhibition catalog, Mola e il sue tiempo, pittura di figura à Roma dalla collezione Koelliker, Ariccia, Palazzo Chigi,Skira, Milan, January 22 - April 23, 2005, p.37, fig.14 rep.). We know of several preparatory drawings for this painting, including the sanguine in the Stockholm National Museum (see: exhibition catalog, Pier Francesco Mola, Lugano, Musée Cantonale d'Arte, September 23-November 19, 1989, Rome, Capitoline Museum, December 3-January 31, 1990, Electa, Milan, 1989, p.263, fig.III.65, rep.).
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