Luigi Trécourt (Bergamo 1808-90)

Drawing of 71 x 54 cm made in pencil, with shading and highlights in white lead, on cardboard, the latter resting on a second, thicker cardboard of blue color and bearing pen annotations by the painter, which, due to its larger dimensions, also serves as a passe-partout; all contained in a beautiful contemporary frame, decorated with golden pastiglia friezes on the corners and white lacquer on the bands. This is the preparatory study for the Madonna and Child painted in oil on canvas by Luigi Trécourt from Bergamo around 1860, and preserved at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo (a composition inspired by that of G.B. Salvi, known as Sassoferrato, today at the Borghese Gallery in Rome).