ANDREA VACCARO
(Napoli, 1604-1670)
Studio per la testa di un bambino, 1640-1650
Oil on paper applied on canvas, 280 x 220 mm.
SOLD
The work, known to the writer through high-resolution digital photos, represents a genuine rarity in Andrea Vaccaro's corpus: very few drawings are attributed to him, and personally I do not know any studies that express, through the oil painting technique on paper, the transition from the drawing stage to the final realization on canvas. The child looking upwards is indeed an almost definitive idea...(see catalogue)
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