Baroque Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Superb quality 18th century Italian Old Master ink drawing and wash depicting this ancient family heraldic crest design - with coronet and heraldic shie...

Remigio Cantagallina, Italian 1582-1630 Drawing Net Size: 5 5/8" x 8". This drawing has is framed with a mat. Provenance: Janos Scholz, NYC, The Drawing Shop, NYC. 1961 #31 in the catalog. Back wash sepia on paper . Figures along a stream. Note Janos Scholz was a premier collector of Drawings of this type and Period. A large group of his drawings have been exhibited in many museums. Remigio Cantagallina (c. 1582–1656) was an Italian etcher active in the Baroque period. He was born in Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, in the province of Arezzo. He is best known for his etchings of landscapes and religious subjects, influenced by Paul Bril. He was likely a pupil of the fellow-Florentine Giulio Parigi and Jacopo Ligozzi. In 1612–13 he traveled through the Dutch Republic, the Southern Netherlands, and France, which he documented in detailed drawings in pen and wash of buildings, houses, and cityscapes, complete with persons engaged at work or play in the foreground. His eye caught both the courtly celebrations and the peasant world. He produced detailed views of Brussels and Siena. Jacques Callot was reputed to be a pupil of Cantagallina, before the former moved to Rome to work with Antonio Tempesta. He also likely tutored Stefano della Bella. After 1648, he tutored in drawing the scientist and nature observer Francesco Redi. The engraver Niccolo Angeli was also his pupil. He painted a Last Supper (1604) for the church of San Bartolomeo (now in Museo Civico) of Sansepolcro; aiding him in this painting was a relative, said to be a brother, Antonio Cantagallina (b. 1616), who distinguished himself as architect in his hometown and Livorno. Another relative, Gianfrancesco (Giovanni Francesco), was also an architect. He died at Florence. Among his plates are landscapes, theatrical decorations, and triumphal entries: two landscapes; one with a bridge, the other with buildings; both dated 1603; Immaculate Conception after Callot; A set of four landscapes...

Allegorical Scene is a beautiful artwork attributed to Jacopo Amigoni. Probably realized in the first half of the XVIII century. Pen, brown ink with co...

Italian School 17th Century A bearded man arguing Pen and black ink on paper 9.5 x 6.5 In an ancient framed (restorations in the mould) 17.5 x 13.5 cm This drawing appears to have ...

Italian School beginning of 17th Century A Female Saint with an Angel, Saint Teresa of Avila (?) Brown ink and brown wash on paper 6.5 x 4.2 cm O...